From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756307Ab2DXCNu (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:13:50 -0400 Received: from e23smtp01.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.143]:53815 "EHLO e23smtp01.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756266Ab2DXCNt (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:13:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:43:40 +0930 From: Christopher Yeoh To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Adds Kconfig option for Cross Memory Attach Message-ID: <20120424114340.79825228@Gantu> In-Reply-To: <4F9579E4.2000701@xenotime.net> References: <20120423134243.5ac73596@Gantu> <4F9579E4.2000701@xenotime.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-cbid: 12042316-1618-0000-0000-00000161EA84 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:48:52 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 04/22/2012 09:12 PM, Christopher Yeoh wrote: > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > Attached is a patch which you asked for a while back which adds a > > Kconfig option to allow people who don't want cross memory attach > > to not have it included in their build. > > > and it shouldn't be default y. > > Linus has written a diatribe on [not] making new options > default to y. I'm not that fussed, but currently CMA is enabled whether you like it or not. This just allows you to disable it. IIRC there was an exception where a new config option allows you to disable an old feature (although CMA has not been out that long). Regards, Chris -- cyeoh@au.ibm.com