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.
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~Randy
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~Randy
