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

[david]

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

> On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:51:28 PST, david@xxxxxxx 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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