netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] make walk_memory_resource available with MEMORY

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Date:	Fri, 6 Jun 2008 18:06:38 -0500
From:	Nathan Lynch <ntl@...ox.com>
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	tklein@...ibm.com, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	themann@...ibm.com,
	Hannes Hering <hannes.hering@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ossrosch@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	raisch@...ibm.com, Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>,
	ossthema@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] make walk_memory_resource available with
 MEMORY_HOTPLUG=n

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?
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