While discussing to change the visibility of X86_FEATURE_NAMES (see Link) in order to remove CONFIG_EMBEDDED, Boris suggested to simply make the X86_FEATURE_NAMES functionality unconditional. As a first step, make X86_FEATURE_NAMES disappear in the config prompt. So, as X86_FEATURE_NAMES defaults to yes, to disable it, one now needs to modify the .config file before compiling the kernel. If there are no complaints on this config after a grace period, we can then further remove the config entirely. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230509084007.24373-1-lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx/ Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 53bab123a8ee..a7db116e429a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ config SMP If you don't know what to do here, say N. config X86_FEATURE_NAMES - bool "Processor feature human-readable names" if EMBEDDED + bool default y help This option compiles in a table of x86 feature bits and corresponding -- 2.17.1
