Re: [PATCH 1/1] edac x38: new MC driver module

[Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:09:37 +0100
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:

> > Hi,
> > 
> > Very sorry for long distance between my previous post and this...
> > 
> > I wrote a patch to add HAVE_READQ and HAVE_WRITEQ to each architecture's Kconfig file
> > which have readq() and writeq().
> > 
> > But there is problem.
> > I wrote helps for HAVE_READQ and HAVE_WRITEQ in Kconfig file
> > accodring to the advice by Russell King ( http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122701161824218&w=2 ),
> > but these helps are invisible when I doing menuconfig.
> > (when type '/' and search readq string, HAVE_READQ found, but
> > help string is not printed...)
> > 
> > Do you have some nice technique that make these helps visible easily?
> 
> The options are not visible in menuconfig and therefore the is not
> much point in displaying help for them thre when you search for the symbol.
> But the help contained in the KConfig file is fully justified as it is
> now documented why/when to select these options.
> 
> 	Sam

description of the patch: Adding HAVE_READQ, HAVE_WRITEQ and their help texts
to each architecture's Kconfig file which have readq() and writeq().

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com>

---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 74cc312..a517a8f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -900,3 +900,21 @@ config PPC_LIB_RHEAP
 	bool
 
 source "arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig"
+
+config HAVE_READQ
+	def_bool y
+	help
+	  This is a sign to represent that this architecture provides
+	  readq() function. readq() is a function to read 8 bytes from
+	  I/O space. Each drivers use readq() must depend on this symbol.
+	  Because lots of little private readq() implementations
+	  all over the tree is sucks.
+
+config HAVE_WRITEQ
+	def_bool y
+	help
+	  This is a sign to represent that this architecture provides
+	  writeq() function. writeq() is a function to read 8 bytes from
+	  I/O space. Each drivers use writeq() must depend on this symbol.
+	  Because lots of little private writeq() implementations
+	  all over the tree is sucks.
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