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
