linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 06/18] x86/intel_rdt: Add CONFIG, Makefile, and basic initialization

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610262236490.5013@nanos>
Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2016 22:43:35 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
cc:     "H. Peter Anvin" <h.peter.anvin@...el.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@...il.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@...com>,
        David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@...gle.com>,
        Ravi V Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Sai Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>,
        Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 06/18] x86/intel_rdt: Add CONFIG, Makefile, and basic
 initialization

On Sat, 22 Oct 2016, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> +config INTEL_RDT_A
> +	bool "Intel Resource Director Technology Allocation support"
> +	default n
> +	depends on X86 && CPU_SUP_INTEL

depends on X86 is more than pointless for a config switch which sits in the
arch/x86/Kconfig file....

Thanks,

	tglx