Re: New (now current development process)

Andi Kleen
2005-11-03T18:56:12Z

On Wednesday 02 November 2005 23:31, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > I used to compile with Os on all my kernels, but when the alignment
> > settings got added to the embedded section a few kernels ago and I saw
> > that they all default to 0 (no alignment) it scared me off
>
> Alignment settings in the EMBEDDED menu are ignored if set to 0, in
> other words setting alignment to 0 in Kconfig will fall back to
> compilers default values.
>
> Thats also documented in the help for the config options.

In my opinion the alignment settings are completely useless
(far too low level for a user configuration) and should be just
removed. The per cpu or -Os defaults are totally adequate.

-Andi