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Message-ID: <4FB4B177.9020804@kernel.org>
Date:	Thu, 17 May 2012 17:06:15 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] remove dependency with x86

On 05/17/2012 02:11 AM, Seth Jennings wrote:

> On 05/15/2012 09:05 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> 
>> Exactly saying, [zram|zcache] should has a dependency with
>> zsmalloc, not x86. So replace x86 dependeny with ZSMALLOC.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/zcache/Kconfig |    3 +--
>>  drivers/staging/zram/Kconfig   |    3 +--
>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/zcache/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/zcache/Kconfig
>> index 7048e01..ceb7f28 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/zcache/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/zcache/Kconfig
>> @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ config ZCACHE
>>  	bool "Dynamic compression of swap pages and clean pagecache pages"
>>  	# X86 dependency is because zsmalloc uses non-portable pte/tlb
>>  	# functions
>> -	depends on (CLEANCACHE || FRONTSWAP) && CRYPTO=y && X86
>> -	select ZSMALLOC
>> +	depends on (CLEANCACHE || FRONTSWAP) && CRYPTO=y && ZSMALLOC
> 
> 
> Sorry Minchan, I should have said this the first time around.  I ran
> into this issue before with CRYTPO vs CRYPTO=y.  ZCACHE is a bool where
> ZSMALLOC is a tristate.  It is not sufficient for ZSMALLOC to be set; it
> _must_ be builtin, otherwise you get linker errors.

>

> The dependency should be ZSMALLOC=y.


Sigh. I should have been more careful.
Thanks. I will fix it in next spin.

> 
> Thanks,
> Seth
> 



-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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