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Subject: Re: [PATCH] treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 20:15:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86e329b1-c8d7-47bf-8be8-3326daf74eb5@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38e1a01b-1e8b-7c66-bafc-fc5861f08da9@gmail.com>
Hi Jesse,
On 8/16/23 15:45, Jesse Taube wrote:
> Hi, Randy
>
>> diff -- a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
>> --- a/init/Kconfig
>> +++ b/init/Kconfig
>> @@ -1790,14 +1790,6 @@ config DEBUG_RSEQ
>>
>> If unsure, say N.
>>
>> -config EMBEDDED
>> - bool "Embedded system"
>> - select EXPERT
>> - help
>> - This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
>> - an embedded system so certain expert options are available
>> - for configuration.
>
> Wouldn't removing this break many out of tree configs?
I'm not familiar with out-of-tree configs.
Do you have some examples of some that use CONFIG_EMBEDDED?
(not distros)
> Should there be a warning here to update change it instead of removal?
kconfig doesn't have a warning mechanism AFAIK.
Do you have an idea of how this would work?
We could make a smaller change to init/Kconfig, like so:
config EMBEDDED
- bool "Embedded system"
+ bool "Embedded system (DEPRECATED)"
select EXPERT
help
- This option should be enabled if compiling the kernel for
- an embedded system so certain expert options are available
- for configuration.
+ This option is being removed after Linux 6.6.
+ Use EXPERT instead of EMBEDDED.
but there is no way to produce a warning message. I.e., even with this
change, the message will probably be overlooked.
---
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-17 3:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-16 22:45 Jesse Taube
2023-08-17 3:15 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2023-08-18 23:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2023-08-19 3:33 ` Jesse T
2023-08-19 8:53 ` Christophe Leroy
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-08-16 5:50 Randy Dunlap
2023-08-16 7:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-08-16 13:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-08-16 14:32 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2023-08-16 22:11 ` Greg Ungerer
2023-08-16 22:58 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2023-08-17 4:38 ` Michael Ellerman
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