linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 22/25] powerpc: Remove CONFIG_GENERIC_NVRAM and adopt CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.21.1901040909020.658@nippy.intranet>
Date:   Fri, 4 Jan 2019 09:11:16 +1100 (AEDT)
From:   Finn Thain <fthain@...egraphics.com.au>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 22/25] powerpc: Remove CONFIG_GENERIC_NVRAM and adopt
 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS

On Thu, 3 Jan 2019, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> >  # All PPC32s use generic nvram driver through ppc_md
> > -config GENERIC_NVRAM
> > +config HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS
> >  	bool
> >  	default y if PPC32
> 
> Symbols like this really should be defined in common code, and then
> just selected by the users.
> 

I'll move it to arch/Kconfig.

Thanks.

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