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Message-ID: <479E5ECF.2000302@web.de>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:01:35 +0100
From:	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>
To:	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KGDB: refactor kconfig menu

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> This is an attempt to improve the so far, well, unfortunate Kconfig menu
>> organization of KGDB. Most notably, it pushes all sub-entries into their
>> own menuconfig, removes the (IMHO) unneeded "Method for KGDB
>> communication" choice, and ensures everything is indented properly. This
>> should keep the original semantic while reducing the number of knobs the
>> user is confronted with.
> 
> I realized that KGDB_8250_CONF_STRING is unused in case the driver is
> built as module. So here comes an updated patch that exposes this option
> only when it is actually needed.

Oh, I missed that part one is already in x86.git. So the delta is:


Ask for KGDB_8250_CONF_STRING only in the non-modular case.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>

---
 lib/Kconfig.kgdb |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: b/lib/Kconfig.kgdb
===================================================================
--- a/lib/Kconfig.kgdb
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.kgdb
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ config KGDB_PORT_NUM

 config KGDB_8250_CONF_STRING
 	string "Configuration string for KGDB"
-	depends on KGDB_8250 && !KGDB_SIMPLE_SERIAL
+	depends on (KGDB_8250 = y) && !KGDB_SIMPLE_SERIAL
 	default "io,2f8,115200,3" if X86
 	help
 	  The format of this string should be <io or mmio>,
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