linux-kernel - Re: uninline check

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:40:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
cc:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>, jdike@...aya.com,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: uninline check_signature()



On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> OR I'll have to disable HAS_IOMEM on m68k, and invent a new Kconfig
> symbol for lots of other stuff that currently depends on HAS_IOMEM...

Well, as far as I'm concerned, you could also make all drivers that 
actually need "check_signature()" do a Kconfig level

	select CHECK_SIGNATURE

along with a

	config CHECK_SIGNATURE
		bool
		default n

in lib/Kconfig, and thus make it totally independent of any hw/bus 
features at all, and simply depend on whether it is needed or not. I'd be 
ok with that, and it's certainly "correct" too.

Hmm?

		Linus
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