Re: [PATCH 0/3] removing unwanted module configs

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > Since this option can also be used for helping embedded 
> > developers (I used it for that) I would not want to bloat the 
> > kernel with running a script that is suppose to minimize it. But 
> > if IKCONFIG && !IKCONFIG_PROC does not add more data to the 
> > kernel, then I would be happy to turn it on by default.
> 
> Actually, I can let the user decide. If it sees that IKCONFIG is 
> not set, it can remove it from the .config output. When the 
> silentoldconfig runs afterwards, it will ask the user if they want 
> to enable it.

No, please offer reasonable non-interactive default behavior. It's 
pretty well-defined, and it can be engineered to be self-sufficient 
as well. Why not do that?

	Ingo
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