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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:44:26 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Jesse Taube <mr.bossman075@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED
Hi Jesse,
I replied to your comment a few days ago, but for some reason
your email to me contains:
Reply-To: 20230816055010.31534-1-rdunlap@...radead.org
so it wasn't sent directly to you.
My former reply is below.
On 8/16/23 20:15, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 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
--
~Randy
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