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SubjectRe: [patch 1/8] init: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT
Doesn't this patch series break the 'bisectable' rule for patches?
I think you can get by with adding a CONFIG_EXPERT selects CONFIG_EMBEDDED
in the first patch and the last patch removing that same selects.

Robin

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 08:02:26PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
> is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope
> than only small devices.
>
> This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
> references to the option in the same file. Followup patches will fix the
> remainder of the occurrences in the tree.
>
> Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention:
> only expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes
> they are making should enable it.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> ---
> init/Kconfig | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
> 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -689,8 +689,8 @@ config DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
> endif # CGROUPS
>
> menuconfig NAMESPACES
> - bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED
> - default !EMBEDDED
> + bool "Namespaces support" if EXPERT
> + default !EXPERT
> help
> Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using
> the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects
> @@ -830,8 +830,8 @@ config SYSCTL
> config ANON_INODES
> bool
>
> -menuconfig EMBEDDED
> - bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
> +menuconfig EXPERT
> + bool "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)"
> help
> This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
> to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
> @@ -839,14 +839,14 @@ menuconfig EMBEDDED
> Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
>
> config UID16
> - bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EXPERT
> depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
> default y
> help
> This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
>
> config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
> - bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EXPERT
> depends on PROC_SYSCTL
> default y
> select SYSCTL
> @@ -863,7 +863,7 @@ config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
> If unsure say Y here.
>
> config KALLSYMS
> - bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
> default y
> help
> Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
> @@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
>
>
> config HOTPLUG
> - bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT
> default y
> help
> This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
> @@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ config HOTPLUG
>
> config PRINTK
> default y
> - bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Enable support for printk" if EXPERT
> help
> This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
> eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
> @@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ config PRINTK
> strongly discouraged.
>
> config BUG
> - bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "BUG() support" if EXPERT
> default y
> help
> Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
> @@ -924,12 +924,12 @@ config BUG
>
> config ELF_CORE
> default y
> - bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
> help
> Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
>
> config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
> - bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EXPERT
> depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES
> default y
> help
> @@ -938,14 +938,14 @@ config PCSPKR_PLATFORM
>
> config BASE_FULL
> default y
> - bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EXPERT
> help
> Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
> kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
> but may reduce performance.
>
> config FUTEX
> - bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Enable futex support" if EXPERT
> default y
> select RT_MUTEXES
> help
> @@ -954,7 +954,7 @@ config FUTEX
> run glibc-based applications correctly.
>
> config EPOLL
> - bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EXPERT
> default y
> select ANON_INODES
> help
> @@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ config EPOLL
> support for epoll family of system calls.
>
> config SIGNALFD
> - bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EXPERT
> select ANON_INODES
> default y
> help
> @@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ config SIGNALFD
> If unsure, say Y.
>
> config TIMERFD
> - bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EXPERT
> select ANON_INODES
> default y
> help
> @@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ config TIMERFD
> If unsure, say Y.
>
> config EVENTFD
> - bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EXPERT
> select ANON_INODES
> default y
> help
> @@ -992,7 +992,7 @@ config EVENTFD
> If unsure, say Y.
>
> config SHMEM
> - bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EXPERT
> default y
> depends on MMU
> help
> @@ -1003,7 +1003,7 @@ config SHMEM
> which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
>
> config AIO
> - bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
> default y
> help
> This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used
> @@ -1080,16 +1080,16 @@ endmenu
>
> config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
> default y
> - bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EXPERT
> help
> VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
> This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
> - on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
> + on EXPERT systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
> if VM event counters are disabled.
>
> config PCI_QUIRKS
> default y
> - bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EXPERT
> depends on PCI
> help
> This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset
> @@ -1098,7 +1098,7 @@ config PCI_QUIRKS
>
> config SLUB_DEBUG
> default y
> - bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
> depends on SLUB && SYSFS
> help
> SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
> @@ -1142,7 +1142,7 @@ config SLUB
> a slab allocator.
>
> config SLOB
> - depends on EMBEDDED
> + depends on EXPERT
> bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
> help
> SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
> @@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ endchoice
>
> config MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED
> bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized"
> - depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU
> + depends on EXPERT && !MMU
> default n
> help
> Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained
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