Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:39:37 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Status of X86_P4_CLOCKMOD? |
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 12:55:30AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Friday 24 February 2006 00:33, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > EMBEDDED is the wrong option, since the semantics of embedded is "show > > more options to allow additional space savings". It is not and should > > not be abused as an option to hide random options from users. > > I disagree. And I originally added most EMBEDDED users to the kernel. > The purpose I added it for was to hide options that only useful > for a very limited userbase but cause big or subtle trouble when set > wrong. P4_CLOCKMOD clearly qualifies.
This matches neither the description of the EMBEDDED option nor all other usages in the kernel I have seen until now.
We need an additional option for such cases, but overloading EMBEDDED with more than one meaning is definitely not a good idea.
> -Andi
cu Adrian
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