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Message-ID: <20141015145924.GA21199@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:59:24 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: x86: Make Atom PMC driver configurable.

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 09:52:45AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:46:03AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > The Atom PMC driver is always built-in, regardless of whether
 > > the kernel being built is going to be run on an Atom (or even Intel) CPU.
 > > 
 > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
 > > 
 > > diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
 > > index f2327e88e07c..04280177c1e2 100644
 > > --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
 > > +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
 > > @@ -2485,7 +2485,7 @@ config X86_DMA_REMAP
 > >  	depends on STA2X11
 > >  
 > >  config PMC_ATOM
 > > -	def_bool y
 > > +	tristate "Intel Atom SOC power management controller driver"
 > 
 > looks like you should still have this as default y just to make sure you
 > a simple defconfig still enables this as it did before.
 
I could, but why should this be default y ? There's no real
justification to inflict this on everyone, given atom is at best
a niche area of x86.

	Dave

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