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On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 05:27 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > WRT to DANGEROUS sign, people do not read Kconfig help. Some distro
> will
> > just enable this, people will start using this, and then start
> sending
> > unappy e-mails. We have this with MTD block. No matter how many
> times I
> > wrote to people that this is just a debugging module, they still
> kept
> > using it.
> > 
> 
> If you really think distros will enable it and users will "just it",
> without
> thinking about the consequences, then I'd say let's just remove it.

I do not think everyone would do this, of course not. But if there were
many users, some would, I think, yes.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy