[PATCH 1/2] x86: make X86_FEATURE_NAMES non-configurable in prompt

From: Lukas Bulwahn
Date: Wed May 10 2023 - 02:57:38 EST


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/20230509084007.24373-1-lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx/

Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
---
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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