Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:52:13 +1100 | From | Peter Williams <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] plugsched - update Kconfig-1 |
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Con Kolivas wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:10, Peter Williams wrote: > >>Con Kolivas wrote: >> >>>On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:22, Peter Williams wrote: >>> >>>>Con Kolivas wrote: >>>> >>>>>On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:34, Peter Williams wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>1. Make the ability to select which schedulers are built in independent >>>>>>of EMBEDDED. >>>>>>2. Only offer builtin schedulers as choice for the default scheduler. >>>>>>3. Only build in ingosched if PLUGSCHED is not configured. >>>>> >>>>>I disagree with 3. Surely people might want to build in only one >>>>>scheduler that is not ingosched without other choices. >>>> >>>>Yes, and they would be able to do that by selecting PLUGSCHED and then >>>>selecting only the scheduler that they want. But this then leads to the >>>>observation that PLUGSCHED is probably makes things unnecessarily >>>>complex and all that is required is a means to select the schedulers to >>>>be built in and a choice of default (much like for the IO schedulers)? >>> >>>Indeed it may be better to remove the "plugsched" option entirely. Once >>>patched in it's not like you are building the kernel without the >>>plugsched infrastructure. Provided each extra scheduler does not increase >>>the kernel size too much (and a test build with/without all schedulers >>>should tell you that), it may be best to just have the scheduler choice >>>in the top menu and only expose the "schedulers to build in" under >>>embedded. >> >>I can't see why this should be restricted to embedded systems? > > > It's just convention that size options go in there; it's not really just for > embedded systems.
OK. I guess I'm sometimes guilty of taking things too literally :-(
I'll read up on Kconfig again before I make any changes.
Thanks Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au
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