Building header files into the kernel
Building header files into the kernel
Posted Mar 26, 2019 23:53 UTC (Tue) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)In reply to: Building header files into the kernel by jsmith45
Parent article: Building header files into the kernel
> One word of warning: This basically requires CONFIG_TMPFS. It will also work if !CONFIG_SHMEM, because then it uses tiny-shmem (which is ramfs). However using CONFIG_SHMEM without CONFIG_TMPFS yields a tmpfs that is excessively limited.
It occurs to me that we shouldn't even have these options. The kernel would be simpler to reason about if basic, fundamental, and cheap things like tmpfs and shmem (and procfs!) were hardwired to =y. I've never understood the rationale for extreme configurability. Fundamental things should always be available.