From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/8] init: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:29:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1293964177.2470.16.camel@macbook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1012291959200.27241@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 20:02 -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.
I think it was misnamed from the very beginning; it never really made
sense to call it 'EMBEDDED'. Too many people abuse the term 'embedded'.
> 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.
Thanks for doing this.
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-02 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-30 4:02 David Rientjes
2010-12-30 4:02 ` [patch 2/8] arch: " David Rientjes
2010-12-30 4:02 ` [patch 3/8] drivers: " David Rientjes
2010-12-30 4:02 ` [patch 4/8] fs: " David Rientjes
2010-12-30 4:02 ` [patch 5/8] block: " David Rientjes
2010-12-30 4:02 ` [patch 6/8] init: " David Rientjes
2010-12-30 4:02 ` [patch 7/8] lib: " David Rientjes
2010-12-30 4:02 ` [patch 8/8] usr: " David Rientjes
2010-12-30 9:04 ` [patch 1/8] init: " Ingo Molnar
2010-12-30 12:45 ` Robin Holt
2010-12-30 12:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-12-30 13:10 ` Robin Holt
2010-12-30 19:17 ` David Rientjes
2010-12-30 21:56 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-01-03 20:10 ` Andrew Morton
2011-01-03 21:56 ` David Rientjes
2011-01-02 10:29 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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