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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] device coredump: fix minor issue in Kconfig file
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:35:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1416404147.9374.2.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1416403682-9203-1-git-send-email-akarwar@marvell.com>

On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 05:28 -0800, Amitkumar Karwar wrote:
> if "CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP=y" is added to configuration file, it
> gets removed when final configuration file is generated. The
> reason is it requires CONFIG_WANT_DEV_COREDUMP to be enabled.
> 
> Currently "make menuconfig" doesn't display an option to enable
> WANT_DEV_COREDUMP. This patch updates Kconfig so that user can
> enable WANT_DEV_COREDUMP.

This is completely intentional - drivers should "select
WANT_DEV_COREDUMP" and users are only able to set "ALLOW_DEV_COREDUMP=n"
to prevent it.

johannes


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From: Johannes Berg <johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
To: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar-eYqpPyKDWXRBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	dri-devel-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org,
	Xinming Hu <huxm-eYqpPyKDWXRBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] device coredump: fix minor issue in Kconfig file
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:35:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1416404147.9374.2.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1416403682-9203-1-git-send-email-akarwar-eYqpPyKDWXRBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>

On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 05:28 -0800, Amitkumar Karwar wrote:
> if "CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP=y" is added to configuration file, it
> gets removed when final configuration file is generated. The
> reason is it requires CONFIG_WANT_DEV_COREDUMP to be enabled.
> 
> Currently "make menuconfig" doesn't display an option to enable
> WANT_DEV_COREDUMP. This patch updates Kconfig so that user can
> enable WANT_DEV_COREDUMP.

This is completely intentional - drivers should "select
WANT_DEV_COREDUMP" and users are only able to set "ALLOW_DEV_COREDUMP=n"
to prevent it.

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-19 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-19 13:28 [PATCH] device coredump: fix minor issue in Kconfig file Amitkumar Karwar
2014-11-19 13:28 ` Amitkumar Karwar
2014-11-19 13:35 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2014-11-19 13:35   ` Johannes Berg
2014-11-19 13:43   ` Amitkumar Karwar
2014-11-19 13:43     ` Amitkumar Karwar

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