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Date:	Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:50:17 +0100
From:	Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>
To:	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: untangle EXPERT and EMBEDDED

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 04:40:47PM +0100, Jerome Marchand wrote:
> > @@ -1259,8 +1259,7 @@ config SLUB
> >  	   a slab allocator.
> >  
> >  config SLOB
> > -	depends on EXPERT
> > -	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
> > +	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" if EXPERT
> >  	help
> >  	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
> >  	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
> 
> Am I missing something or this particular chunk does not actually change
> anything?
> 

No, you're correct. There's no actual change, so the hunk could be dubbed
as an unnecessary cleanup. I made the change in order to give it the same
general format as the rest of the expert options in that file.

Drew
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