Re: [PATCH] init: Remove CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK

Josh Triplett
2014-10-21T10:05:24Z

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:53:04AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> > CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK adds config bloat without an obvious use case
> > that makes it worth keeping around. Delete it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> > ---
> >
> > Bring on the blame :)
> >
> > init/Kconfig | 16 ----------------
> > init/main.c | 5 -----
> > 2 files changed, 21 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> > index ebbd5846478e..e84c6423a2e5 100644
> > --- a/init/Kconfig
> > +++ b/init/Kconfig
> > @@ -1299,22 +1299,6 @@ source "usr/Kconfig"
> >
> > endif
> >
> > -config INIT_FALLBACK
> > - bool "Fall back to defaults if init= parameter is bad"
> > - default y
> > - help
>
> The above is not in mainline, nor in -next?
> Seems it only exists in a patch series you sent yourself?
>
> Confused...

See the previous thread. The previous patch adds this config option to
make the current default behavior optional. The removal patch then
removes the old default behavior. Andrew plans to push them in
successive kernels, to give more review time.

- Josh Triplett