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Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 14:24:21 -0700 From: Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@...il.com> To: "jirisl >> Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@...il.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>, team-fjord@...glegroups.com Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] tty: Added a CONFIG_TTY option to allow removal of TTY On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz> wrote: > > On 09/03/2012 02:44 AM, Joe Millenbach wrote: > > The option allows you to remove TTY and compile without errors. This > > saves space on systems that won't support TTY interfaces anyway. > > bloat-o-meter output is below. > ... > > --- a/drivers/tty/Kconfig > > +++ b/drivers/tty/Kconfig > > @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ > > +config TTY > > + bool "Enable TTY" if EXPERT > > + default y > > + ---help--- > > + Allows you to remove TTY support which can save space, and > > + blocks features that require TTY from inclusion in the kernel. > > + TTY is required for any text terminals or serial port > > + communication. Most users should leave this enabled. > > + > > +if TTY > > + > > config VT > > bool "Virtual terminal" if EXPERT > > depends on !S390 && !UML > > @@ -355,6 +366,8 @@ config TRACE_SINK > > If you select this option, you need to select > > "Trace data router for MIPI P1149.7 cJTAG standard". > > > > +endif # TTY > > + > > config PPC_EPAPR_HV_BYTECHAN > > tristate "ePAPR hypervisor byte channel driver" > > depends on PPC > > Hmm, I wonder why do not you include EHV in the depends-on-tty list? > > thanks, > -- > js > suse labs I do not have a Power PC system to test on, so during my testing I did not notice that option would need TTY also. Thanks for pointing that out. Before I spin a new patch is there anything else I should add? I do not know of a way for me to easily test all the different CPU specific configurations on my x86 based machines. Joe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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