Thanks Josh, unfortunately, I cannot live with CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL. I need a minimalistic kernel, and every unnecessary KB is expensive. Besides, I have ideological objections to having unneeded features compiled in my kernel. Is there any way of editing it directly in the .config file manually?
Nobody asked for my opinion, but I feel I have to say something: The linux kernel project is already a complicated endeavor as it is. Why does somebody complicate it needlessly, by creating these artificial problems. I very much appreciate the good work that is being done on the linux kernel, but it seems to me that some people have lost their common sense Konrad On 3/11/13, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 04:14:27PM +0100, Konrad Vrba wrote: >> Dear list, >> I have noticed that CONFIG_EXPERT=n makes the following options in the >> kernel required (unremovable): >> >> CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y >> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="" >> CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_ALPS=y >> CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_LOGIPS2PP=y >> CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS=y >> CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_LIFEBOOK=y >> CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_TRACKPOINT=y >> CONFIG_VGA_ARB=y >> CONFIG_VGA_ARB_MAX_GPUS=16 >> CONFIG_I8253_LOCK=y >> CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT=y >> CONFIG_PCSPKR_PLATFORM=y >> >> If I select CONFIG_EXPERT=y then I can remove those, but that creates >> a new problem by making CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y unremovable. >> >> To make a specific example, this makes it impossible to compile a kernel >> with >> CONFIG_FW_LOADER=n >> CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=n >> at the same time > > CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, like CONFIG_EXPERT, should not directly affect the > code included in the kernel; it should just avoid asking about a pile of > other debugging options. In practice, a small amount of > architecture-specific code (for powerpc, parisc, and blackfin) did use > it as a generic debug option, but that needs fixing. So, for now, turn > on CONFIG_EXPERT and live with having CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL turned on. > > That aside, several of the above options should not depend on EXPERT; > why would PCSPKR_PLATFORM or DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT need to depend on EXPERT? > > - Josh Triplett > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
