> if you have followed how 2.1 evolved, it _was_ actually a kernel config
> option when my patch went in. So people started playing with it and it was
> very easy to mess the kernel up. Yes it had a help entry. It happened a
> few times, then the config option was removed.
Removing it seems silly. If users can't be trusted to get it right then
don't expose the settable option through the "make config" "make
menuconfig" etc. interfaces. But by all means leave the #define (heavily
commented of course) in a Makefile or include somewhere.
Chris
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