On Sat, 01 Jan 2011, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > Given the high traffic on LKML, some folks probably haven't seen this > thread, which proposes to rename the CONFIG_EMBEDDED option to > CONFIG_EXPERT. > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/438671/ > what would be the advantage of such a change ? is there an intent to introduce an actual CONFIG_EMBEDDED dedicated to embedded systems ? The argument in the above patch that it requires experts to modify these settings holds for a lot of items in the kernel config and if that is the prime motivatino to flag these then an additional tag "EXPERT" along with "NEW" and "EXPERIMENTAL" might make more sense (Aside from the help text generally stating the sane-state any way with the common note that if you don't knwo what you are doing say N...) The main objection I would have is that it will break documentation (out of tree docs that is) with little to no utility for the kernel developers. hofrat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
