Re: [PATCH] Allow to disable shmem.o

[Hugh Dickins]

On 8 Aug 2004, Andi Kleen wrote:
> i suspect the standard functionality is already covered by CONFIG_EMBEDDED.

It would still be appropriate to say what functionality is lost
by configuring out, rather than leaving everyone to guess.

> > You're completely changing the meaning and configurability of
> > CONFIG_TMPFS.  Perhaps it's not a useful config option any more
> > (too often needed "y", too little saved by "n"), and yours is
> > more useful.  But if you want to go this way, you must change
> > its name and Documentation and #ifdefs too.
> 
> Perhaps, but calling it CONFIG_TMPFS is not too bad.

Okay, so I come along to clean up after you.  Yes, we could work it that
way.  But somehow I still prefer Matt's patch, which offers a lot more.

Hugh

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