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Message-ID: <AANLkTil30jVU79NGdPdAw516-_AOTzbX6DQdwahv4evx@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:33:59 -0700
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
Cc:	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
	hpa@...or.com, cjb@...top.org, Mitch Bradley <wmb@...top.org>,
	pgf@...top.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] proc: unify PROC_DEVICETREE config

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net> wrote:
>
> Microblaze and PPC both use PROC_DEVICETREE, and OLPC will as well.. put
> the Kconfig option into fs/ rather than in arch/*/Kconfig.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
> ---
>  arch/microblaze/Kconfig |    8 --------
>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig    |    8 --------
>  fs/proc/Kconfig         |    8 ++++++++
>  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/microblaze/Kconfig b/arch/microblaze/Kconfig
> index 76818f9..b66c962 100644
> --- a/arch/microblaze/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/microblaze/Kconfig
> @@ -128,14 +128,6 @@ config OF
>        def_bool y
>        select OF_FLATTREE
>
> -config PROC_DEVICETREE
> -       bool "Support for device tree in /proc"
> -       depends on PROC_FS
> -       help
> -         This option adds a device-tree directory under /proc which contains
> -         an image of the device tree that the kernel copies from Open
> -         Firmware or other boot firmware. If unsure, say Y here.
> -
>  endmenu
>
>  menu "Advanced setup"
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> index 328774b..8a56e8b 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> @@ -578,14 +578,6 @@ config SCHED_SMT
>          when dealing with POWER5 cpus at a cost of slightly increased
>          overhead in some places. If unsure say N here.
>
> -config PROC_DEVICETREE
> -       bool "Support for device tree in /proc"
> -       depends on PROC_FS
> -       help
> -         This option adds a device-tree directory under /proc which contains
> -         an image of the device tree that the kernel copies from Open
> -         Firmware or other boot firmware. If unsure, say Y here.
> -
>  config CMDLINE_BOOL
>        bool "Default bootloader kernel arguments"
>
> diff --git a/fs/proc/Kconfig b/fs/proc/Kconfig
> index 50f8f06..858a859 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/proc/Kconfig
> @@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ config PROC_VMCORE
>         help
>         Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
>
> +config PROC_DEVICETREE
> +       bool "Support for device tree in /proc"
> +       depends on PROC_FS && (PPC || MICROBLAZE)
> +       help
> +         This option adds a device-tree directory under /proc which contains
> +         an image of the device tree that the kernel copies from Open
> +         Firmware or other boot firmware. If unsure, say Y here.
> +

Looks good to me.  However, I've changed the depends line to the following.

depends on PROC_FS && OF && !SPARC

Cheers,
g.
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