linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: make CMDLINE

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Date:   Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:14:42 +0000
From:   John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
To:     Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>, <catalin.marinas@....com>
CC:     <will@...nel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: make CMDLINE_FORCE depend on CMDLINE

On 11/11/2019 08:59, Anders Roxell wrote:
> When building allmodconfig KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=$(pwd)/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> CONFIG_CMDLINE_FORCE gets enabled. Which forces the user to pass the
> full cmdline to CONFIG_CMDLINE="...".
> 
> Rework so that CONFIG_CMDLINE_FORCE gets set only if CONFIG_CMDLINE is
> set to something except an empty string.
> 
> Suggested-by: John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>
> ---

This looks ok.

Were you also going to propose a patch to introduce a LITTLE ENDIAN 
config option?

For me, this would mean that ACPI module is built for allmodconfig, 
which is a good thing.

Thanks,
john


>   arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 50df79d4aa3b..64764ca92fca 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -1629,6 +1629,7 @@ config CMDLINE
>   
>   config CMDLINE_FORCE
>   	bool "Always use the default kernel command string"
> +	depends on CMDLINE != ""
>   	help
>   	  Always use the default kernel command string, even if the boot
>   	  loader passes other arguments to the kernel.
>