Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:07:09 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer |
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:47:52PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:09:26PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 05:00:16PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 17:58 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > There's no reason for getting linux-kernel swamped with > > > > "my kernel doesn't boot" messages by people who accidentally disabled > > > > this option. > > > > > > By that logic, you should make it necessary to set CONFIG_EMBEDDED > > > before you can set CONFIG_EXT3 != Y or CONFIG_IDE != Y too. > > > > That's the difference between Aunt Tillie and a system administrator: > > A system administrator knows which filesystems he wants to use. > > > > > However you dress it up, it's pandering to someone who either lacks the > > > wit, or just can't be bothered, to _look_ at what they're doing when > > > they configure their kernel. And it's a bad thing. > > > > We already have too many user visible options > > Examples please. >...
Do a "make menuconfig" and look at the number of options.
There's e.g. no reason to ask all users whether they want to compile all I/O schedulers into their kernel.
To avoid misunderstandings:
I'm not talking about people subscribed to this list.
It's more about a system administrator who must for some reason (e.g. hardware support or the requirement of some external patch) compile his own kernel.
cu Adrian
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