To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>,
       Ingo Brueckl <ib@wupperonline.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out support for some processors
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On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:40:16 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput said:

> If I know what is my CPU there is no point for supporting all related
> CPUs in my kernel.

EMBEDDED is for a large assortment of things, all of which are of the form:

General users won't want to change Y, but if I know I don't need Y, there is
no point in supporting Y in the kernel.

Y might be "this kernel doesn't need sysctl"
Y might be "support for hot-plug"
Y might be "printk"
Y might be "support generic CPUs"

See the pattern?

Yes, we probably could have come up with a better name than EMBEDDED for
that list of optionals.

CONFIG_TRAINED_TECHNICIANS_ONLY_NO_USER_SERVICABLE_PARTS_INSIDE maybe?


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