linux-kernel - Re: Select on now-gone Kconfig option STOP

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:59:08 +0000
From:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
To:	Andreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@....de>
Cc:	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: Select on now-gone Kconfig option STOP_MACHINE

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:52:04AM +0100, Andreas Ziegler wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> your commit 5bab6f60cb4d ("drm/i915: Serialise updates to GGTT with
> access through GGTT on Braswell") added a select to STOP_MACHINE to the
> DRM_I915 Kconfig option.
> 
> In 4.5-rc1, your commit 86fffe4a61dd ("kernel: remove stop_machine()
> Kconfig dependency") then removed STOP_MACHINE entirely, but didn't
> delete the select from drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig.
> 
> Should I prepare a simple patch which removes the select?

Yes, it was intended to be removed on merging.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre