linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/8] pci: consolidate PCI config entry in drivers/pci

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Date:   Mon, 15 Oct 2018 15:58:58 -0500
From:   Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Matt Porter <mporter@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Alexandre Bounine <alex.bou9@...il.com>,
        Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] pci: consolidate PCI config entry in drivers/pci

s/^pci: /PCI: / in subject

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 05:10:12PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> There is no good reason to duplicate the PCI menu in every architecture.
> Instead provide a selectable HAS_PCI symbol that indicates availability
> of PCI support and the handle the rest in drivers/pci.
> 
> Note that for powerpc we now select HAS_PCI globally instead of the
> convoluted mess of conditional or or non-conditional support per board,
> similar to what we do e.g. on x86.  For alpha PCI is selected for the
> non-jensen configs as it was the default before, and a lot of code does
> not compile without PCI enabled.  On other architectures with limited
> PCI support that wasn't as complicated I've left the selection as-is.

Thanks for doing this.  It's a great cleanup.  I know you have a few
things you're cleaning up, but add my:

Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>

when you do that.