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

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Date:	Tue, 8 May 2007 11:21:44 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level "Space-critical features" menu.


On May 8 2007 04:41, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>  in my opinion, the config option "EMBEDDED" is just plain silly.  as
>i mentioned earlier, there may be other reasons that people want to
>de-activate normally selected features rather than just for strictly
>embedded systems.

Did not you want to make a patch row that expresses all your ideas, aka
  CONFIG_EXPERT
  CONFIG_ASKFORDETAILS (former CONFIG_EMBEDDED, e.g. "place in memory where
kernel is loaded")
  CONFIG_OBSOLETE
  CONFIG_DEPRECATED
etc.? :)



Jan
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