Re: [PATCH 1/4] create mm/Kconfig for arch-independent memoryoptions

[Dave Hansen]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 02:30 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> I was hoping for this too, in the meantime can't you simply make it a 
> suboption of DISCONTIGMEM? So an extra option is only visible when it's 
> enabled and most people can ignore it completely by just disabling a 
> single option.

That's reasonable, except that SPARSEMEM doesn't strictly have anything
to do with DISCONTIG.

How about a menu that's hidden under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL?

> > I'm not opposed to creating some better help text for those things, I'm
> > just not sure that we really need it, or that it will help end users get
> > to the right place.  I guess more explanation never hurt anyone.
> 
> Some basic explanation with a link for more information can't hurt.

I'll see what I can come up with.

-- Dave

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