[RFC] [PATCH] Disable EMBEDDED on MIPS

[RFC] [PATCH] Disable EMBEDDED on MIPS

[Martin Michlmayr]

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.

Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index 1aad0d9..091f349 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ config MIPS
 	select HAVE_IDE
 	select HAVE_OPROFILE
 	select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
-	# Horrible source of confusion.  Die, die, die ...
-	select EMBEDDED
 	select RTC_LIB if !LEMOTE_FULOONG2E
 
 mainmenu "Linux/MIPS Kernel Configuration"

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Disable EMBEDDED on MIPS

[Ralf Baechle]

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