Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@...>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, linux kernel <linux-kernel@...>, Michael Opdenacker <michael@...>, CE Linux Developers List <celinux-dev@...>
On Thursday 20 September 2007 12:10:50 pm Tim Bird wrote:
Beyond that, allno doesn't come close to switching everything off.
1) You have to _enable_ CONFIG_EMBEDDED in order to go into that menu and
switch _off_ the stuff in there.
2) The stuff CONFIG_EMBEDDED reveals isn't all in that menu. CONFIG_BLOCK is
at the top level menu. CONFIG_VT and CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS are buried down
under device drivers->character devices, and there's more sprinkled all over.
You have to track it all down and switch it off to get an _actual_
allnoconfig kernel.
(I cut the bit where you reinvent miniconfig. People keep doing this. I dig
it up and resubmit it every year or so, so Roman Zippel can shoot it down
again. Meanwhile, not only is Firmware Linux happily using it, but I even
wrote more documentation at
http://landley.net/code/firmware/new_platform.html although you have to
scroll down a bit to get to the stuff about miniconfig...)
Rob
--
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
- Ken Thompson.
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