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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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
