Hi Simon,
On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 02:12:02PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> CONFIG_EXPERT exposes too many config options that do not matter for
>> development. However, CONFIG_EMBEDDED selects CONFIG_EXPERT, so it
>> cannot be disabled.
>>
>> Hence disable CONFIG_EMBEDDED, and compensate for the loss of
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL by enabling the latter.
>>
>> Actual impact:
>> - CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y,
>> - CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=n,
>> - CONFIG_SERIAL_SH_SCI_NR_UARTS changed from 20 to 18,
>> - CONFIG_SERIAL_SH_SCI_EARLYCON=y,
>> - Some HID support became enabled,
>> - CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT=y,
>>
>> Refresh the result.
>
> I'm sorry but I don't understand the motivation for this change.
> I understand that it might make the image smaller or build times faster.
> But it seems to be a risky change for those benefits.
My main motivation is to start using the default values for the various SH_SCI
options from the first 4 patches, but that requires disabling CONFIG_EXPERT.
Sorry for not making that clearer.
> What are the side-effects of the changes you describe above?
Enabling CONFIG_NAMESPACES shouldn't hurt (isn't that also needed for
systemd anyway?), just like the HID devices, or CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
(it does a few more checks, and defaults to yes).
Disabling CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL also shouldn't hurt (it defaults to no),
except for very old userland not yet using /proc/sys, which might have been
broken along the way by changed binary paths anyway.
Thanks!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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