From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from westrelay01.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.10]) by e33.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j37FUZ4I631756 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:30:35 -0400 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (d03av03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.169]) by westrelay01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id j37FUVFP197282 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 09:30:34 -0600 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j37FUVdm028313 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 09:30:31 -0600 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] create mm/Kconfig for arch-independent memory options From: Dave Hansen In-Reply-To: References: <42544D7E.1040907@linux-m68k.org> <1112821319.14584.28.camel@localhost> <1112831857.14584.43.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:30:24 -0700 Message-Id: <1112887825.14584.59.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Roman Zippel Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm , Andy Whitcroft List-ID: On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 02:30 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > I was hoping for this too, in the meantime can't you simply make it a > suboption of DISCONTIGMEM? So an extra option is only visible when it's > enabled and most people can ignore it completely by just disabling a > single option. That's reasonable, except that SPARSEMEM doesn't strictly have anything to do with DISCONTIG. How about a menu that's hidden under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL? > > I'm not opposed to creating some better help text for those things, I'm > > just not sure that we really need it, or that it will help end users get > > to the right place. I guess more explanation never hurt anyone. > > Some basic explanation with a link for more information can't hurt. I'll see what I can come up with. -- Dave -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org