Re: uninline check_signature()

Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-18T06:45:30Z

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > OR I'll have to disable HAS_IOMEM on m68k, and invent a new Kconfig
> > symbol for lots of other stuff that currently depends on HAS_IOMEM...
>
> Well, as far as I'm concerned, you could also make all drivers that
> actually need "check_signature()" do a Kconfig level
>
> select CHECK_SIGNATURE
>
> along with a
>
> config CHECK_SIGNATURE
> bool
> default n
>
> in lib/Kconfig, and thus make it totally independent of any hw/bus
> features at all, and simply depend on whether it is needed or not. I'd be
> ok with that, and it's certainly "correct" too.
>
> Hmm?

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> ;-)

(will cook a patch when I find a timeslot)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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