Suggestion: How about making this a config option? I.e, 
   
   #ifdef AUTONICE
   [ ... ]
   #endif
   
   	- or alternatively, "#ifdef NOAUTONICE".

i may have already said this:  sysctl this instead  :-)
   
   	I think this may be why compiles on my pc532 have felt so
   sluggish lately. A kernel compile does *not* take less than 10 minutes

um...no.  does any _one_ command take > 10 minutes of cpu?  the most
likely candidate would be the final link, but, i seriously doubt it.

.mrg.