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Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:23:32 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ralf@...ux-mips.org, kernel@...tstofly.org, hskinnemoen@...el.com, cooloney@...nel.org, tony.luck@...el.com, geert@...ux-m68k.org, zippel@...ux-m68k.org, jwboyer@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, mporter@...nel.crashing.org, grant.likely@...retlab.ca, paulus@...ba.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org, dhowells@...hat.com, yasutake.koichi@...panasonic.com, lethal@...ux-sh.org, hpa@...or.com Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] Switch arm defconfig files from CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU to CONFIG_TREE_RCU. On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:33:01AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 09:36:11AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > below is the fix for another small buglet that hits architectures that do > > not include kernel/Kconfig.preempt. > > What is needed to let all architectures include Kconfig.preempt? > We should not advertise preemption if not supported, > but we could do this by a simple Kconfig symbol: > > config HAVE_PREEMPT > bool > > And let all architectures that supports preemption do: > > config "ARCH" > select HAVE_PREEMPT > > But maybe there is a simpler solution The idea being to make things like PREEMPT then depend on HAVE_PREEMPT? Seems reasonable to me, but I cannot claim to understand the relationship of Kconfig and the various arches very well. Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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