Re: [for-next][PATCH 04/26] bootconfig: Add Extra Boot Config support

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 6:41 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 12:10:07AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > Boot time tracing is just a example. I think we can expand this for some
> > other subsystems too. And this might be also helpful for adding a bit more
> > complex syntax to those parameters without parser.
>
> Yes, I think I see it now. And I still don't think you want this enabled
> by default on every box. It is expressed perfectly fine here:
>
> config BOOTTIME_TRACING
>         bool "Boot-time Tracing support"
>         depends on BOOT_CONFIG && TRACING

Which is BTW "default y", too...

> so if distros want to enable that, they will enable BOOT_CONFIG too,
> transitively. And other subsystems would simply depend on it the same if
> they wanna use bootconfig.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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