Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Apr 2005 01:40:49 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] create mm/Kconfig for arch-independent memory options |
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Hi,
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 22:58 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > > Dave Hansen wrote: > > > --- memhotplug/mm/Kconfig~A6-mm-Kconfig 2005-04-04 09:04:48.000000000 -0700 > > > +++ memhotplug-dave/mm/Kconfig 2005-04-04 10:15:23.000000000 -0700 > > > @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ > > > +choice > > > + prompt "Memory model" > > > + default FLATMEM > > > + default SPARSEMEM if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT > > > + default DISCONTIGMEM if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT > > > > Does this really have to be a user visible option and can't it be > > derived from other values? The help text entries are really no help at all. > > I hope that this selection will replace the current DISCONTIGMEM prompts > in the individual architectures. That way, you won't get a net increase > in the number of prompts.
Why is this choice needed at all? Why would one choose SPARSEMEM over DISCONTIGMEM? Help texts such as "If unsure, choose <something else>" make the complete config option pretty useless.
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