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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