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Message-Id: <1164899084.5257.806.camel@gullible>
Date:	Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:04:44 -0500
From:	Ben Collins <ben.collins@...ntu.com>
To:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] [HVCS] Select HVC_CONSOLE if HVCS is enabled.

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:32 +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> 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?

Most of the HVC options are doing select on other HVC things (like
select HVC_DRIVER). So if this one needs to be a dependency, then it
would make more sense to clean up the HVC option group to do the same. I
just did the one-liner to make it work.
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