From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752872AbZKRGGF (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:06:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751999AbZKRGGF (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:06:05 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:47978 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751738AbZKRGGD (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:06:03 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] powerpc: Fix minor build issues on 2.6.32-rc7 without CONFIG_XICS set From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Mel Gorman Cc: Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1258459659-11770-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> References: <1258459659-11770-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:05:32 +1100 Message-ID: <1258524332.2140.663.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.