Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751081AbWAEA7F (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:59:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750973AbWAEAuW (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:50:22 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:1466 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750974AbWAEAtz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:49:55 -0500 Cc: gregkh@suse.de Subject: [PATCH] HOTPLUG: always enable the .config option, unless EMBEDDED In-Reply-To: <1136422169909@kroah.com> X-Mailer: gregkh_patchbomb Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 16:49:30 -0800 Message-Id: <11364221692430@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: Greg K-H To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT From: Greg KH Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2046 Lines: 59 [PATCH] HOTPLUG: always enable the .config option, unless EMBEDDED With modules, dynamic /dev, and uevents, people really want CONFIG_HOTPLUG to be enabled in their kernels. If not, they can still disable it, but it is discouraged. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- commit 712f47cea7703a340406fde61e84eb86ce781988 tree cf8a4ae14b1503446000454151ef5c8cef507336 parent 312c004d36ce6c739512bac83b452f4c20ab1f62 author Greg Kroah-Hartman Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:27:07 -0800 committer Greg Kroah-Hartman Wed, 04 Jan 2006 16:18:08 -0800 init/Kconfig | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 0de8b77..d2b4e33 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -197,14 +197,6 @@ config AUDITSYSCALL can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, such as SELinux. -config HOTPLUG - bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if !ARCH_S390 - default ARCH_S390 - help - This option is provided for the case where no in-kernel-tree - modules require HOTPLUG functionality, but a module built - outside the kernel tree does. Such modules require Y here. - config IKCONFIG bool "Kernel .config support" ---help--- @@ -289,6 +281,15 @@ config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. +config HOTPLUG + bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED + default y + help + This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent + capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider + disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a + dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. + config PRINTK default y bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/