Re: [2.6 patch] offer CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE only if EXPERIMENTAL

[Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:22:16PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> >
> > CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is still an experimental feature that doesn't work 
> > with all supported gcc/architecture combinations.
> > 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> > 
> > --- linux-git/init/Kconfig.old	2005-12-14 23:08:51.000000000 +0100
> > +++ linux-git/init/Kconfig	2005-12-14 23:09:09.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@
> >  source "usr/Kconfig"
> >  
> >  config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
> > -	bool "Optimize for size"
> > +	bool "Optimize for size (EXPERIMENTAL)" if EXPERIMENTAL
> >  	default y if ARM || H8300
> >  	help
> >  	  Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
> 
> This will cause arm and h8300 to accidentally stop using -Os if they have
> !EXPERIMENTAL.

In effect, the total change effectively replaces EMBEDDED with
EXPERIMENTAL - since the original was:

        bool "Optimize for size" if EMBEDDED

and that had the desired result for ARM with the !EMBEDDED case.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core