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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: make config X86_FEATURE_NAMES visible with EXPERT
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To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On 5/9/23 11:41, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 11:38:27AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> This actually isn't _great_ for x86.  We hid X86_FEATURE_NAMES behind
>> EMBEDDED because we didn't want to see it 99% of the time.  But just
>> about everyone uses EXPERT=y, so the end result here is that everyone
>> will now see X86_FEATURE_NAMES.
>>
>> Oh well.  It's just one Kconfig option.  Not a big deal.
> Or we can make it unconditional. I haven't heard anything from the tiny
> .config folks in a while and a !X86_FEATURE_NAMES kernel is just
> unfriendly.

Like remove the option entirely?  Or just remove the prompt so folks
have to hack the .config for it?