linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] powerpc: Fix minor build issues on 2.6.32-rc7 without CONFIG

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:05:32 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] powerpc: Fix minor build issues on 2.6.32-rc7
 without CONFIG_XICS set

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 12:07 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> KConfig doesn't require CONFIG_XICS to be set with CONFIG_PSERIES but if
> it's not set, there are numerous small build errors. This is a small series
> of patches to allow CONFIG_XICS to be unset in the config.
> 
> XICS appears to be some sort of interrupt controller but I'm not sure how
> common it is on systems that require CONFIG_PSERIES. If CONFIG_PSERIES
> universally requires CONFIG_XICS, the better path might be to force it to
> be set.
> 
> Testing was building with make oldconfig a configuration from 2.6.31 on
> a PPC970.

CONFIG_XICS should be made invisible and selected by PSERIES.

Cheers,
Ben.


--
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/