linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc, Makefile: Make it possible to safely select CONFIG_FRAME

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Date:	Mon, 18 May 2009 21:55:59 +0200
From:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>,
	Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc, Makefile: Make it possible to safely select CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER

> Segher, what are we missing here ?

The symbol name is misleading, and the help text is incorrect.

With those things fixed, I won't oppose the patch; it would
be nice if the logic here was cleaned up to avoid all the
double negations, but I'm not going to do it, so I won't ask
others to either.


Segher

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