Hi Paul,
On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 11:38:41AM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > I see. In that case, please feel free to send the patch to akpm with my
> > Nack and pointing to this discussion. If Andrew agrees and I was wrong
> > (and I'm really curious whether I am right or wrong), I will start
> > applying such patches in future.
>
> I didn't send the patch to akpm, but I did have a chance to ask akpm how
> dependencies should be used, and you can see his answer here:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/7/456
Thanks for asking! FWIW, I won't be against CONFIG_AKPM. ;-) Something
like that will work:
depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS
depends on RESTRICT_PLATFORM && GOLDFISH
But not that I think we really need this option, though. Whoever wants to
(re)build the kernel is assumed to be knowledgeable enough to figure out
what needed/unneeded for the given HW. I, for example, use 'ARCH=foo
allnoconfig' for stripped kernels, and then enable specific options which
I know I will need. Distros, however, they are using kind of
'allmodconfig' anyways:
~$ du -sh /lib/modules/3.8.0-28-desktop/
148M /lib/modules/3.8.0-28-desktop/
One module less, one module more does not matter, but maintaining
CONFIG_AKPM will cost devs' time and efforts (especially figuring out what
is platform dep and what is not... I think it is easier to just keep
things simple.
But again, I won't be against it -- at least it doesn't make my life
harder. :-)
Cheers,
Anton
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