Date:   Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:57:34 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3 v2] char: group dev configs togther

Group /dev/{mem,kmem,nvram,raw,port} driver configs together.
This also means that tty configs are now grouped together instead
of being split up.

This just moves Kconfig lines around. There are no other changes.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>
Cc: linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
---
v2: no change

 drivers/char/Kconfig |  100 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

--- linux-next-20200311.orig/drivers/char/Kconfig
+++ linux-next-20200311/drivers/char/Kconfig
@@ -7,25 +7,6 @@ menu "Character devices"
 
 source "drivers/tty/Kconfig"
 
-config DEVMEM
-	bool "/dev/mem virtual device support"
-	default y
-	help
-	  Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/mem device.
-	  The /dev/mem device is used to access areas of physical
-	  memory.
-	  When in doubt, say "Y".
-
-config DEVKMEM
-	bool "/dev/kmem virtual device support"
-	# On arm64, VMALLOC_START < PAGE_OFFSET, which confuses kmem read/write
-	depends on !ARM64
-	help
-	  Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/kmem device. The
-	  /dev/kmem device is rarely used, but can be used for certain
-	  kind of kernel debugging operations.
-	  When in doubt, say "N".
-
 source "drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig"
 source "drivers/tty/serdev/Kconfig"
 
@@ -220,29 +201,6 @@ config NWFLASH
 
 source "drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig"
 
-config NVRAM
-	tristate "/dev/nvram support"
-	depends on X86 || HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS
-	default M68K || PPC
-	---help---
-	  If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/nvram
-	  with major number 10 and minor number 144 using mknod ("man mknod"),
-	  you get read and write access to the non-volatile memory.
-
-	  /dev/nvram may be used to view settings in NVRAM or to change them
-	  (with some utility). It could also be used to frequently
-	  save a few bits of very important data that may not be lost over
-	  power-off and for which writing to disk is too insecure. Note
-	  however that most NVRAM space in a PC belongs to the BIOS and you
-	  should NEVER idly tamper with it. See Ralf Brown's interrupt list
-	  for a guide to the use of CMOS bytes by your BIOS.
-
-	  This memory is conventionally called "NVRAM" on PowerPC machines,
-	  "CMOS RAM" on PCs, "NVRAM" on Ataris and "PRAM" on Macintoshes.
-
-	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
-	  module will be called nvram.
-
 #
 # These legacy RTC drivers just cause too many conflicts with the generic
 # RTC framework ... let's not even try to coexist any more.
@@ -431,6 +389,48 @@ config NSC_GPIO
 	  pc8736x_gpio drivers.  If those drivers are built as
 	  modules, this one will be too, named nsc_gpio
 
+config DEVMEM
+	bool "/dev/mem virtual device support"
+	default y
+	help
+	  Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/mem device.
+	  The /dev/mem device is used to access areas of physical
+	  memory.
+	  When in doubt, say "Y".
+
+config DEVKMEM
+	bool "/dev/kmem virtual device support"
+	# On arm64, VMALLOC_START < PAGE_OFFSET, which confuses kmem read/write
+	depends on !ARM64
+	help
+	  Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/kmem device. The
+	  /dev/kmem device is rarely used, but can be used for certain
+	  kind of kernel debugging operations.
+	  When in doubt, say "N".
+
+config NVRAM
+	tristate "/dev/nvram support"
+	depends on X86 || HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS
+	default M68K || PPC
+	---help---
+	  If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/nvram
+	  with major number 10 and minor number 144 using mknod ("man mknod"),
+	  you get read and write access to the non-volatile memory.
+
+	  /dev/nvram may be used to view settings in NVRAM or to change them
+	  (with some utility). It could also be used to frequently
+	  save a few bits of very important data that may not be lost over
+	  power-off and for which writing to disk is too insecure. Note
+	  however that most NVRAM space in a PC belongs to the BIOS and you
+	  should NEVER idly tamper with it. See Ralf Brown's interrupt list
+	  for a guide to the use of CMOS bytes by your BIOS.
+
+	  This memory is conventionally called "NVRAM" on PowerPC machines,
+	  "CMOS RAM" on PCs, "NVRAM" on Ataris and "PRAM" on Macintoshes.
+
+	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
+	  module will be called nvram.
+
 config RAW_DRIVER
 	tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN)"
 	depends on BLOCK
@@ -452,6 +452,14 @@ config MAX_RAW_DEVS
 	  Default is 256. Increase this number in case you need lots of
 	  raw devices.
 
+config DEVPORT
+	bool "/dev/port character device"
+	depends on ISA || PCI
+	default y
+	help
+	  Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/port device. The /dev/port
+	  device is similar to /dev/mem, but for I/O ports.
+
 config HPET
 	bool "HPET - High Precision Event Timer" if (X86 || IA64)
 	default n
@@ -511,14 +519,6 @@ config TELCLOCK
 	  /sys/devices/platform/telco_clock, with a number of files for
 	  controlling the behavior of this hardware.
 
-config DEVPORT
-	bool "/dev/port character device"
-	depends on ISA || PCI
-	default y
-	help
-	  Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/port device. The /dev/port
-	  device is similar to /dev/mem, but for I/O ports.
-
 source "drivers/s390/char/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/char/xillybus/Kconfig"

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