From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:35516 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762916AbZD3OoP (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:44:15 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:43:09 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] removing unwanted module configs Message-ID: <20090430144309.GC14897@elte.hu> References: <20090430030821.523327994@goodmis.org> <20090430071830.GC16737@elte.hu> <20090430132605.GA5289@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Steven Rostedt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Theodore Tso , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , zippel@linux-m68k.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg , Jonathan Corbet * Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > Since this option can also be used for helping embedded > > developers (I used it for that) I would not want to bloat the > > kernel with running a script that is suppose to minimize it. But > > if IKCONFIG && !IKCONFIG_PROC does not add more data to the > > kernel, then I would be happy to turn it on by default. > > Actually, I can let the user decide. If it sees that IKCONFIG is > not set, it can remove it from the .config output. When the > silentoldconfig runs afterwards, it will ask the user if they want > to enable it. No, please offer reasonable non-interactive default behavior. It's pretty well-defined, and it can be engineered to be self-sufficient as well. Why not do that? Ingo