Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Tue, 11 Feb 2020 10:25:31 +0100 | Subject | Re: [for-next][PATCH 04/26] bootconfig: Add Extra Boot Config support |
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 6:41 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 12:10:07AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > > Boot time tracing is just a example. I think we can expand this for some > > other subsystems too. And this might be also helpful for adding a bit more > > complex syntax to those parameters without parser. > > Yes, I think I see it now. And I still don't think you want this enabled > by default on every box. It is expressed perfectly fine here: > > config BOOTTIME_TRACING > bool "Boot-time Tracing support" > depends on BOOT_CONFIG && TRACING
Which is BTW "default y", too...
> so if distros want to enable that, they will enable BOOT_CONFIG too, > transitively. And other subsystems would simply depend on it the same if > they wanna use bootconfig.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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