Re: [PATCH] x86: make config X86_FEATURE_NAMES visible with EXPERT

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Tue May 09 2023 - 14:43:17 EST


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?