From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: CONFIG_EFI should select CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:35:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110609153538.GA29274@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DF0E584.2030101@zytor.com>
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:23:48AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 06/09/2011 07:41 AM, Peter Jones wrote:
> >>
> >> Can we make this a depends on instead of select?
> >
> > Seems weird to me - when you're configuring the kernel, you're more likely
> > to know that you want EFI than to remember that that requires relocation.
> >
>
> Yes, but "select" is handled very poorly by Kconfig.
I think it's safe in this case.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-09 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-09 14:32 [PATCH] x86: CONFIG_EFI should select CONFIG_RELOCATABLE Matthew Garrett
2011-06-09 14:34 ` Peter Jones
2011-06-09 14:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-09 14:41 ` Peter Jones
2011-06-09 15:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-09 15:35 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2011-06-09 14:47 ` Matthew Garrett
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