linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] tracing/kprobes: Make Kconfig dependencies generic

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Message-ID: <20100218123453.GA5136@nowhere>
Date:	Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:34:57 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
Cc:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] tracing/kprobes: Make Kconfig dependencies generic

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 07:12:08AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 07:09, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 06:18:20AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 06:13, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> >> > --- a/arch/Kconfig
> >> > +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> >> > @@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
> >> >  config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
> >> >        bool
> >> >
> >> > +config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
> >> > +       bool
> >> > +
> >>
> >> could you add an appropriate help/comment so arch peeps know what
> >> needs to be implemented before they can select this
> >
> > That's why I added the commit ID for the regs and stack access api
> > to the changelog. imho that should be sufficient.
> > Besides that the next commit would implement it for s390 as a
> > blueprint for others. That is... for those that missed the initial
> > x86 implementation.
> 
> people shouldnt have to dive into the changelog to try and divine
> documentation.  it's hardly standard, so people fall on it in a
> pima-last-resort kind of way.  being explicit in the file up front by
> writing real documentation says other people a lot more time.
> -mike


Yeah, would be nice to have a comment above the config definition
to explain what it implies.

Heiko, mind sending a delta patch for that?

Thanks.

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