From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:22:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk ([81.2.74.5]:53891 "EHLO h5.dl5rb.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1493744AbZLBTWt (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 20:22:49 +0100 Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by h5.dl5rb.org.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nB2JMj0h013491; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 19:22:45 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by h5.dl5rb.org.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nB2JMi2J013488; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 19:22:44 GMT Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 19:22:43 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Martin Michlmayr Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Disable EMBEDDED on MIPS Message-ID: <20091202192243.GA3485@linux-mips.org> References: <20091119164632.GA15279@deprecation.cyrius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091119164632.GA15279@deprecation.cyrius.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 25282 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 04:46:32PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > There's no reason for MIPS to select EMBEDDED. In fact, EMBEDDED > makes MIPS more awkward to deal with because it makes it different > to the majority of architectures for no good reason. Historically disabling EMBEDDED had hid essential options for many MIPS platforms such as serial console and forced crap like VGA support or power managment enabled for platforms where those don't make any sense. The name of the option is also _very_ missleading so many users don't select it even where is was required for a functioning kernel. After reviewing the current Kconfig files it seems this is no longer the case, so I'll queue this patch for 2.6.33. Ralf