Re: CONFIG_TINY

From: Rasmus Andersen (rasmus@jaquet.dk)
Date: Thu Oct 31 2002 - 14:27:52 EST


On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:15:35PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> There currently isn't a CONFIG_TINY / CONFIG_DESKTOP / CONFIG_FOO. The
> idea is that all of these changes you're working on to make a smaller
> kernel shouldn't all be under CONFIG_TINY, but which ones are on / off
> are read from some sort of template and there's a default 'tiny'
> template, 'desktop' 'foo', etc template which has some on and some off.
>
> And this is a major concern since many of us who would have to deal with
> this when it enters the kernel want it to done in a flexible manner
> initially, not later on.

OK. This certainly makes sense and I'll be happy to redo my stuff to
match such a framework. This is not something I have thought a lot
about until now, though.

How would you go about implementing this? A central .h file with
tweakables and a number of templates setting these?

Regards,
  Rasmus



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