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Date:	Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:32:20 +0100 (CET)
From:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Ben Collins <bcollins@...ntu.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] [HVCS] Select HVC_CONSOLE if HVCS is enabled.

Hi,

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Ben Collins wrote:

> If HVC_CONSOLE provides symbols that HVCS requires.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@...ntu.com>
> ---
>  drivers/char/Kconfig |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
> index 2af12fc..c94ecdc 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
> @@ -598,6 +598,7 @@ config HVC_RTAS
>  config HVCS
>  	tristate "IBM Hypervisor Virtual Console Server support"
>  	depends on PPC_PSERIES
> +	select HVC_CONSOLE
>  	help
>  	  Partitionable IBM Power5 ppc64 machines allow hosting of
>  	  firmware virtual consoles from one Linux partition by


Why not a normal dependency?

bye, Roman
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