linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] removing unwanted module configs

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Message-ID: <20090430144309.GC14897@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:43:09 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	zippel@...ux-m68k.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] removing unwanted module configs


* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > Since this option can also be used for helping embedded 
> > developers (I used it for that) I would not want to bloat the 
> > kernel with running a script that is suppose to minimize it. But 
> > if IKCONFIG && !IKCONFIG_PROC does not add more data to the 
> > kernel, then I would be happy to turn it on by default.
> 
> Actually, I can let the user decide. If it sees that IKCONFIG is 
> not set, it can remove it from the .config output. When the 
> silentoldconfig runs afterwards, it will ask the user if they want 
> to enable it.

No, please offer reasonable non-interactive default behavior. It's 
pretty well-defined, and it can be engineered to be self-sufficient 
as well. Why not do that?

	Ingo
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