While discussing to change the visibility of X86_FEATURE_NAMES (see Link)
in order to remove CONFIG_EMBEDDED, Boris suggested to simply make the
X86_FEATURE_NAMES functionality unconditional.
As a first step, make X86_FEATURE_NAMES disappear in the config prompt. So,
as X86_FEATURE_NAMES defaults to yes, to disable it, one now needs to
modify the .config file before compiling the kernel.
If there are no complaints on this config after a grace period, we can then
further remove the config entirely.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <[email protected]>
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arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 53bab123a8ee..a7db116e429a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ config SMP
If you don't know what to do here, say N.
config X86_FEATURE_NAMES
- bool "Processor feature human-readable names" if EMBEDDED
+ bool
default y
help
This option compiles in a table of x86 feature bits and corresponding
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