From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nathan Lynch Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] make walk_memory_resource available with MEMORY_HOTPLUG=n Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 18:06:38 -0500 Message-ID: <20080606230638.GC6638@localdomain> References: <200805071443.20192.hannes.hering@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20080528164405.GA4836@localdomain> <200806031007.40162.hannes.hering@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20080603204908.GB7475@localdomain> <1212527335.23656.2.camel@badari-desktop> <4845B382.20205@garzik.org> <20080603223054.GC7475@localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: tklein@de.ibm.com, Jeff Garzik , themann@de.ibm.com, Hannes Hering , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ossrosch@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, raisch@de.ibm.com, Badari Pulavarty , ossthema@de.ibm.com To: Paul Mackerras Return-path: Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:37403 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757017AbYFFXWt (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2008 19:22:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080603223054.GC7475@localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Nathan Lynch wrote: > The ehea driver was recently changed[1] to use walk_memory_resource() to > detect the system's memory layout. However, walk_memory_resource() is > available only when memory hotplug is enabled. So CONFIG_EHEA was > made to depend on MEMORY_HOTPLUG [2], but it is inappropriate for a > network driver to have such a dependency. > > Make the declaration of walk_memory_resource() and its powerpc > implementation (ehea is powerpc-specific) unconditionally available. Paul, can you take these two patches, or should I send them to akpm?