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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Status of X86_P4_CLOCKMOD?
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:55:30 +0100
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Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>, davej@codemonkey.org.uk, Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@commfireservices.com>, Samuel Masham <samuel.masham@gmail.com>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk

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.

-Andi