From: mmarek@suse.com (Michal Marek)
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] nvme: split pci module out of core module
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 14:35:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56BB3CB9.2070608@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455042405.8832.4.camel@ssi>
On 2016-02-09 19:26, Ming Lin wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-02-09@09:56 +0100, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016@02:24:44PM -0800, Ming Lin wrote:
>>> This splits nvme.ko into 2 modules:
>>> nvme-core.ko: the core part
>>> nvme.ko: the PCI driver
>>>
>>> Also changes config name:
>>> s/CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NVME/CONFIG_NVME_PCI
>>> s/CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NVME_SCSI/CONFIG_NVME_SCSI
>>
>> Is there any auto-migration for those who already have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NVME set
>> in their kernel configs? If not, this could lead to a bunch of non-booting
>> systems.
>
> Hi Michal(CCed),
>
> As you saw above, I'm changing:
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NVME to CONFIG_NVME_PCI
> and
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NVME_SCSI to CONFIG_NVME_SCSI
>
> Is there Kconfig magic to keep existing config working?
Not if you remove the old option from the Kconfig file. You could keep
the old option and make it select the new one. But then the benefit of
the whole operation becomes questionable.
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-10 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-08 22:24 [PATCH 0/4] nvme: split pci module out of core module Ming Lin
2016-02-08 22:24 ` [PATCH 1/4] nvme: move timeout variables to core.c and export it Ming Lin
2016-02-09 9:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-09 12:43 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-02-09 12:46 ` Matias Bjørling
2016-02-08 22:24 ` [PATCH 2/4] nvme: export more symbols Ming Lin
2016-02-09 9:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-09 12:42 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-02-09 12:56 ` Matias Bjørling
2016-02-09 13:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-08 22:24 ` [PATCH 3/4] nvme: split dev_list_lock Ming Lin
2016-02-09 9:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-09 12:41 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-02-09 13:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-09 13:34 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-02-08 22:24 ` [PATCH 4/4] nvme: split pci module out of core module Ming Lin
2016-02-09 8:56 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-02-09 18:26 ` Ming Lin
2016-02-10 13:35 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2016-02-09 9:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-10 0:09 ` Ming Lin
2016-02-10 15:12 ` Keith Busch
2016-02-10 15:31 ` Ming Lin
2016-02-09 9:24 ` [PATCH 0/4] " Christoph Hellwig
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