From: Gioacchino Mazzurco gmazzurco89@gmail.com Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:43:43 +0200
It is not like that for a lot of batman-adv users that works with embedded devices where even 10KB makes the dfference
Ok, but you also have the option of making it a seperate module too.
Right now it's an all or nothing choice. Once you make a Kconfig decision, later it's harder to rebuild the kernel to fix a mistake than to simply load the module in question.