linux-kernel - Re: x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out support for some processors

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0901021048050.21408@asgard.lang.hm>
Date:	Fri, 2 Jan 2009 10:54:15 -0800 (PST)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
cc:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@...il.com>,
	Ingo Brueckl <ib@...peronline.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out support for some processors

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:

> On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:51:28 PST, david@...g.hm said:
>> having things outside of the embedded menu depend on embedded makes it
>> hard for people to figure out what they need to do to disable specific
>> things.
>
> Odd, I can do a 'make menuconfig', do a /EARLY_PRINTK, and see:
>
> Symbol: EARLY_PRINTK [=y]                                               x
>  x Prompt: Early printk                                                    x
>  x   Defined at arch/x86/Kconfig.debug:33                                  x
>  x   Depends on: EMBEDDED                                                  x
>  x   Location:                                                             x
>  x     -> Kernel hacking
>
>> if you follow the logic you are providing to it's logical conclusion you
>> may as well put all kernel config options under "I really know what I'm
>> doing" top level lockout
>
> Hey, I didn't make up that logic. ;)
>
> A large percentage of the kernel config options are things that really *could*
> be one way or the other for any given system.  Maybe you want ext4, maybe you
> don't.  Maybe you need process accounting, maybe you don't.  So they don't go
> under EMBEDDED.  But we can be 98% sure that they probably want PRINTK.

is there an easy way to pull the list of what symbols depend on EMBEDDED?

David Lang
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