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On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 02:04:46PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> For a config option that no one has come forward with an actual real
> world use case for disabling, that cost seems much too high.

The real-world use case is precisely as stated: code size, both storage
and RAM.

I regularly encounter systems I'd *like* to put Linux in that have
around 1MB of storage and 1MB of RAM, or even less.