From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] powerpc: Fix minor build issues on 2.6.32-rc7 without CONFIG_XICS set
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:05:32 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1258524332.2140.663.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1258459659-11770-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie>
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 12:07 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> KConfig doesn't require CONFIG_XICS to be set with CONFIG_PSERIES but if
> it's not set, there are numerous small build errors. This is a small series
> of patches to allow CONFIG_XICS to be unset in the config.
>
> XICS appears to be some sort of interrupt controller but I'm not sure how
> common it is on systems that require CONFIG_PSERIES. If CONFIG_PSERIES
> universally requires CONFIG_XICS, the better path might be to force it to
> be set.
>
> Testing was building with make oldconfig a configuration from 2.6.31 on
> a PPC970.
CONFIG_XICS should be made invisible and selected by PSERIES.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-18 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-17 12:07 [PATCH 0/4] powerpc: Fix minor build issues on 2.6.32-rc7 without CONFIG_XICS set Mel Gorman
2009-11-17 12:07 ` [PATCH 1/4] powerpc: Add Kconfig dependency for PCI_MSI as needed by XICS Mel Gorman
2009-11-17 12:40 ` Michael Ellerman
2009-11-17 12:07 ` [PATCH 2/4] powerpc: Panic on platform ppc-xicp when CONFIG_XICS not set instead of build failure Mel Gorman
2009-11-17 12:45 ` Michael Ellerman
2009-11-17 12:07 ` [PATCH 3/4] powerpc: Only define smp_pSeries_cpu_bootable when CONFIG_XICS is set Mel Gorman
2009-11-17 12:47 ` Michael Ellerman
2009-11-17 12:07 ` [PATCH 4/4] powerpc: Avoid reference to XICS-related functions when CONFIG_XICS is not set Mel Gorman
2009-11-17 12:39 ` [PATCH 0/4] powerpc: Fix minor build issues on 2.6.32-rc7 without CONFIG_XICS set Michael Ellerman
2009-11-17 12:52 ` Michael Ellerman
2009-11-18 6:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-11-17 13:25 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-18 6:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-11-18 17:05 ` Mel Gorman
2009-11-27 2:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-11-27 16:33 ` [PATCH] powerpc: Add Kconfig dependency on PCI_MSI for XICS and select for PSERIES Mel Gorman
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