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

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Date:	Tue, 08 May 2007 15:03:07 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
CC:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	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.

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 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")

Some of this might be better left to GUIs or HOWTOs.

>   CONFIG_OBSOLETE
>   CONFIG_DEPRECATED
> etc.? :)
> 
> 
> 
> Jan


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