On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 02:04:46PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > For a config option that no one has come forward with an actual real > world use case for disabling, that cost seems much too high.
The real-world use case is precisely as stated: code size, both storage and RAM. I regularly encounter systems I'd *like* to put Linux in that have around 1MB of storage and 1MB of RAM, or even less.