From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Schniedermeyer Subject: Re: [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:39:39 +0200 Message-ID: <44EDF26B.7070404@citd.de> References: <32640.1156424442@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20060824152937.GK19810@stusta.de> <1156434274.3012.128.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20060824155814.GL19810@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Adrian Bunk , David Woodhouse , David Howells , Jens Axboe , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from enyo.dsw2k3.info ([195.71.86.239]:29587 "EHLO enyo.dsw2k3.info") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030423AbWHXSju (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:39:50 -0400 To: Jan Engelhardt In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>>On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 17:29 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> >>>> bool "Enable the block layer" depends on EMBEDDED >>> >>>Please. no. CONFIG_EMBEDDED was a bad idea in the first place -- its >>>sole purpose is to pander to Aunt Tillie. >> >>It's not for Aunt Tillie. >>It's for an average system administrator who compiles his own kernel. >> >>CONFIG_BLOCK=n will only be for the "the kernel must become as fast as >>possible, and I really know what I'm doing" people. > > > Then that should be CONFIG_I_AM_AN_EXPERT (CONFIG_EXPERT), not > CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Or to quote the GUI-configuration of xine-ui CONFIG_EXPERIENCE_LEVEL With the options: Beginner Advanced Expert Master of the know universe SCNR. ;-) Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.