Re: Make HWSPINLOCK a menuconfig to ease disabling
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 11:23:50PM +, Linux Kernel wrote: > Make HWSPINLOCK a menuconfig to ease disabling > > So that there's no need to get into the submenu to disable all related > config > entries. Here's how that looks on x86... * * Hardware Spinlock drivers * Hardware Spinlock drivers (HWSPINLOCK) [N/m/y] (NEW) ? There is no help available for this option. Symbol: HWSPINLOCK [=n] Type : tristate Prompt: Hardware Spinlock drivers Location: -> Device Drivers Defined at drivers/hwspinlock/Kconfig:5 No help ? Ok whatever, let's see what happens.. Hardware Spinlock drivers (HWSPINLOCK) [N/m/y] (NEW) m And then nothing, because none of the drivers that depend on this are available for x86 because of stuff like this.. > config HWSPINLOCK_OMAP > tristate "OMAP Hardware Spinlock device" > depends on ARCH_OMAP4 || SOC_OMAP5 || SOC_DRA7XX || SOC_AM33XX || > SOC_AM43XX > config HWSPINLOCK_QCOM > tristate "Qualcomm Hardware Spinlock device" > depends on ARCH_QCOM > config HWSPINLOCK_SIRF > tristate "SIRF Hardware Spinlock device" > depends on ARCH_SIRF > config HSEM_U8500 > tristate "STE Hardware Semaphore functionality" > depends on ARCH_U8500 HWSPINLOCK needs all those depends too. Dave
Re: Make HWSPINLOCK a menuconfig to ease disabling
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 11:23:50PM +, Linux Kernel wrote: > Make HWSPINLOCK a menuconfig to ease disabling > > So that there's no need to get into the submenu to disable all related > config > entries. Here's how that looks on x86... * * Hardware Spinlock drivers * Hardware Spinlock drivers (HWSPINLOCK) [N/m/y] (NEW) ? There is no help available for this option. Symbol: HWSPINLOCK [=n] Type : tristate Prompt: Hardware Spinlock drivers Location: -> Device Drivers Defined at drivers/hwspinlock/Kconfig:5 No help ? Ok whatever, let's see what happens.. Hardware Spinlock drivers (HWSPINLOCK) [N/m/y] (NEW) m And then nothing, because none of the drivers that depend on this are available for x86 because of stuff like this.. > config HWSPINLOCK_OMAP > tristate "OMAP Hardware Spinlock device" > depends on ARCH_OMAP4 || SOC_OMAP5 || SOC_DRA7XX || SOC_AM33XX || > SOC_AM43XX > config HWSPINLOCK_QCOM > tristate "Qualcomm Hardware Spinlock device" > depends on ARCH_QCOM > config HWSPINLOCK_SIRF > tristate "SIRF Hardware Spinlock device" > depends on ARCH_SIRF > config HSEM_U8500 > tristate "STE Hardware Semaphore functionality" > depends on ARCH_U8500 HWSPINLOCK needs all those depends too. Dave
