Re: [patch 1/8] init: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT

[David Rientjes]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > Ok, so there are a few pending EMBEDDED dependency additions in linux-next 
> > as of next-20101230, which should be a pretty good indicator of what type 
> > of conflict we might risk during the merge window.
> > 
> >  - three new defconfig files:
> > 
> > 	89ba4d12: arch/arm/configs/ag5evm_defconfig
> > 	6cfce27c: arch/arm/configs/omap1_defconfig 
> > 	d58f0967: arch/blackfin/configs/BF561-EZKIT-SMP_defconfig 
> > 
> >  - 3ce05168 (drm/kms: load fbcon from drm_kms_helper)
> > 
> >  - b595076a (tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos)
> > 
> > Instead of CONFIG_EXPERT select CONFIG_EMBEDDED, we could add a ninth 
> > patch which does CONFIG_EMBEDDED select CONFIG_EXPERT and tag it in some 
> > way so we know it's only temporary for the merge window to find new 
> > CONFIG_EMBEDDED entries.
> > 
> > Andrew, this would be going through your -mm tree anyway, so how would you 
> > prefer to merge it?
> 
> um, one big patch shortly after -rc1 is released?
> 

Sounds good, I'll send you a big patch immediately following 2.6.38-rc1 
and add a "config EMBEDDED" that will simply do a "select EXPERT" so it's 
easy to use oldconfig.

It's debatable whether CONFIG_EMBEDDED would actually make sense, and I 
think it does: for example, I think it would be helpful to identify kernel 
options that really only make sense on embedded devices such as device 
drivers, CONFIG_PRINTK, CONFIG_SLOB, etc.
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