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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4] mm: cma: Contiguous Memory Allocator added
> On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 20:11 +0200, Michał Nazarewicz wrote:
>> Not really. This will probably be used mostly on embedded systems
>> where users don't have much to say as far as hardware included on the
>> platform is concerned, etc. Once a phone, tablet, etc. is released
>> users will have little need for customising those strings.

On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:19:08 +0200, Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> You can't assume that user won't want to reflash their own kernel on the
> device. Your assuming way too much.

If user is clever enough to reflash a phone she will find the strings
easy especially that they are provided from: (i) bootloader which is
even less likely to be reflashed and if someone do reflash bootloader
she is a guru who'd know how to make the strings; or (ii) platform
defaults which will be available with the rest of the source code
for the platform.

> If you assume they do want their own kernel then they would need this
> string from someplace. If your right and this wouldn't need to change,
> why bother allowing it to be configured at all ?

Imagine a developer who needs to recompile the kernel and reflash the
device each time she wants to change the configuration... Command line
arguments seems a better option for development.

And the configuration is needed because it is platform-dependent
so it needs to be set for each platform.

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