Re: [2.6 patch] offer CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE only if EXPERIMENTAL

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:36:59PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 
> > What about marking it as EXPERIMENTAL?
> 
> It's not experimental on other architectures, where it is always used.
> 
> The best option _may_ be to do something like this, where we use that 
> "depends on" to set the expectations, and people shouldn't see it unless 
> they ask for EXPERIMENTAL.
>...

My patch has the advantage that it doesn't allow the broken 
CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y setting on ARM if !EXPERIMENTAL.

> 		Linus
>...

cu
Adrian

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