From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753999Ab0L3Mup (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:50:45 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:57328 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750786Ab0L3Muo (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:50:44 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Robin Holt Subject: Re: [patch 1/8] init: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:50:28 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.35-16-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: David Rientjes , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Greg KH , "David S. Miller" , Jens Axboe , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20101230124535.GA3306@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20101230124535.GA3306@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201012301350.28862.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:s5EbNxXiLVFinQZCGA0YBYT0+IHL3h7rRoqmNDdGUH9 NEwTIyER79ffGtsxHOCbOTkjFJHbjj3HTPDG4V7x6pzn63TPuc V8/7sWYa4WE5j0CdCdueJRObcgDRh/sJyuaMj9CJ7erYYS5Va6 KceaMJerSBeAXoLI3q3kcQoyjtQZctqxdGjIlk1k37YsNJYxO1 sQk9eaOdP+WNj44Pbc3QQ== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 30 December 2010, Robin Holt wrote: > Doesn't this patch series break the 'bisectable' rule for patches? > I think you can get by with adding a CONFIG_EXPERT selects CONFIG_EMBEDDED > in the first patch and the last patch removing that same selects. How about leaving it that way during the merge window even? That would help people sending git pull requests that add new dependencies on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. David can submit another patch that removes the temporary CONFIG_EMBEDDED option along with any new users in -rc2 or for 2.6.39 then. Arnd