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SubjectRe: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level "Space-critical features" menu.
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:41:58AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 8 May 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 04:06 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > i've always hated that lower-level menu under "General setup":
> >
> > Good reason to break everything which depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
> >
> > tglx
> >
> > > -menuconfig EMBEDDED
> > > - bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
>
> ah, now i see what you're getting at here:
>
> $ grep EMBEDDED $(find . -name Kconfig\*)
> ./drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig: select CARDBUS if !EMBEDDED
> ./drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig: bool "Special initialization for O2Micro bridges" if EMBEDDED
> ./drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig: bool "Special initialization for Ricoh bridges" if EMBEDDED
> ./drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig: bool "Special initialization for TI and EnE bridges" if EMBEDDED
> ./drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig: bool "Auto-tune EnE bridges for CB cards" if EMBEDDED
> ./drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig: bool "Special initialization for Toshiba ToPIC bridges" if EMBEDDED
> ./drivers/ata/Kconfig: depends on EMBEDDED || ARCH_RPC
> ./drivers/acpi/Kconfig: bool "Power Management Timer Support" if EMBEDDED
> ./drivers/ide/Kconfig: depends on ALPHA || SUPERH || IA64 || EMBEDDED
> ... snip ...
>
> in my opinion, the config option "EMBEDDED" is just plain silly. as
> i mentioned earlier, there may be other reasons that people want to
> de-activate normally selected features rather than just for strictly
> embedded systems.
>
> here's an example:
>
> drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig:
> ...
> menuconfig INPUT_KEYBOARD
> bool "Keyboards" if EMBEDDED || !X86
> default y
> ...
>
> so i should only be allowed to de-activate keyboard support if i
> claim i'm working on an "embedded" system? that's absurd. maybe it's
> a 64-CPU monster server that just happens to be running headless and
> needs no keyboard. making that selection dependent on EMBEDDED is
> just silly in that case.

No, turning off keyboard on your 64-CPU monster server to save ~10k is
the thing that's absurd. More importantly, it's a support headache
because invariably someone will try to plug a keyboard in and complain
to us when it mysteriously doesn't work. If memory serves, Linus
himself did exactly that shortly after the current input layer was
merged.

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