diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 8a8e2d0..5ceff32 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -713,6 +713,14 @@
 	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
 	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
 
+config AIO
+	bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
+	default y
+	help
+	  This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
+          by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
+          this option saves about 7k.
+
 config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
 	default y
 	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED