From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 08:54:14 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 5/5] ARM: shmobile: defconfig: Disable CONFIG_EMBEDDED Message-Id: List-Id: References: <1512047522-16312-1-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be> <1512047522-16312-6-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be> <20171201083305.5vhvr6dfrbzemqgc@verge.net.au> <20171205082833.fqwuyvlmupwektny@verge.net.au> <1ad0fcaa-5edf-9206-4729-d1940842a31a@landley.net> In-Reply-To: <1ad0fcaa-5edf-9206-4729-d1940842a31a@landley.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Rob Landley Cc: Simon Horman , Geert Uytterhoeven , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Magnus Damm , Yoshinori Sato , Rich Felker , Jiri Slaby , "linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" , Linux-Renesas , "moderated list:H8/300 ARCHITECTURE" , Linux-sh list Hi Rob, On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Rob Landley wrote: > On 12/05/2017 02:28 AM, Simon Horman wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 10:46:22AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Simon Horman 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. > > Didn't I already submit a patch to fix this in 2015? > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?idV0b8c0ed45a > > If it came back, it's a regression. Your patch was for arch/sh/Kconfig, not for (arm32) shmobile_defconfig. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qk0-f193.google.com ([209.85.220.193]:44634 "EHLO mail-qk0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751015AbdLIIyQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2017 03:54:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1ad0fcaa-5edf-9206-4729-d1940842a31a@landley.net> References: <1512047522-16312-1-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be> <1512047522-16312-6-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be> <20171201083305.5vhvr6dfrbzemqgc@verge.net.au> <20171205082833.fqwuyvlmupwektny@verge.net.au> <1ad0fcaa-5edf-9206-4729-d1940842a31a@landley.net> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 09:54:14 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 5/5] ARM: shmobile: defconfig: Disable CONFIG_EMBEDDED To: Rob Landley Cc: Simon Horman , Geert Uytterhoeven , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Magnus Damm , Yoshinori Sato , Rich Felker , Jiri Slaby , "linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" , Linux-Renesas , "moderated list:H8/300 ARCHITECTURE" , Linux-sh list Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-renesas-soc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Rob, On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Rob Landley wrote: > On 12/05/2017 02:28 AM, Simon Horman wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 10:46:22AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Simon Horman 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. > > Didn't I already submit a patch to fix this in 2015? > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=560b8c0ed45a > > If it came back, it's a regression. Your patch was for arch/sh/Kconfig, not for (arm32) shmobile_defconfig. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds