Re: Quota patches

Alan Cox
2002-05-24T16:03:11Z

> For 2.5 I have some plans to make obsolete syscalls depend on CONFIG_COMPAT_*,
> this allows to compile big and bloated kernel for compatiblity and smaller
> kernels without that (e.g. for embedded devices). And in fact we have quite
> a loft of cruft that can go away for setups only having very modern userspace..

I'm sure we do. For embedded you also want config options to remove the
block layer and so forth. I'd been thinking about a set of options buried
in a config menu item like "Fine tune configuration for small/embedded devices" CONFIG_SMALL