Subject: Re: Lots of defopt'ing - why?
To: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 06/28/1998 16:47:08
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998 00:32:22 +0200 (MEST)
Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de> wrote:
> I'm just catching up source-changes from a couple of days, and I see a lot
> of former kernel options now being defopt'ed: NFSSERVER, COMPAT_LINUX,
> COMPAT_FREEBSD, COMPAT_SUNOS, ... What's the idea behind this?
>
> Wasn't the intention of these options to remove unnecessary code from the
> kernel if one didn't need the funcionality? Is it just me who is under the
> impression that this optionality is gone now - or am I just missing
> something obvious?
They're still options... but headers are now generated for them so that
proper dependencies can be generated on them.
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