Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level "Space-critical features" menu.

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 04:27 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 8 May 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 04:06 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >   i've always hated that lower-level menu under "General setup":
> >
> > Good reason to break everything which depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
> >
> > 	tglx
> >
> > > -menuconfig EMBEDDED
> > > -	bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
> 
>   i don't know what you're getting at here.  are you saying this is a
> bad idea because it will make a mess of the current usage of
> CONFIG_EMBEDDED in the source tree?
> 
> $ grep -rw CONFIG_EMBEDDED *
> ... lots of irrelevant defconfig output deleted ...
> drivers/pci/setup-res.c:#ifdef CONFIG_EMBEDDED
> include/linux/ide.h:#if !defined(MAX_HWIFS) || defined(CONFIG_EMBEDDED)
> $

# find -iname Kconfig | xargs grep EMBEDDED

>   i don't see a whole lot of impact here.

But there _IS_ impact. It does not matter whether it is a lot or not.

>   more to the point, though,
> the word "EMBEDDED" in this context is just wrong.  people might have
> *other* reasons to de-activate some of those features rather than just
> for an embedded system.
> 
>   granted, that's probably where it will *mostly* happen, but i prefer
> the idea of labelling those selections for what they really are -- for
> *saving* *space*, because that's exactly what they represent.

I prefer patches, which do not break things all over the place.

	tglx