linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] ACPI: NUMA: Remove ARCH depends option in ACPI

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Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 09:44:03 +0100
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Haibo Xu" <haibo1.xu@...el.com>
Cc: "Alison Schofield" <alison.schofield@...el.com>,
 "Jisheng Zhang" <jszhang@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] ACPI: NUMA: Remove ARCH depends option in ACPI_NUMA Kconfig

On Thu, Mar 7, 2024, at 09:47, Haibo Xu wrote:
> x86/arm64/loongarch would select ACPI_NUMA by default and riscv
> would do the same thing, so the dependency is no longer needed
> since these are the four architectures that support ACPI.
>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Suggested-by: Sunil V L <sunilvl@...tanamicro.com>
> Signed-off-by: Haibo Xu <haibo1.xu@...el.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/numa/Kconfig | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/numa/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/numa/Kconfig
> index 849c2bd820b9..2bf47ad1ec9b 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/numa/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/numa/Kconfig
> @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
>  config ACPI_NUMA
>  	bool "NUMA support"
>  	depends on NUMA
> -	depends on (X86 || ARM64 || LOONGARCH)
>  	default y if ARM64

Can we remove the prompt as well and make this a
hidden option? I think this is now always selected
when it can be used anyway.

If we make it

      def_bool NUMA && !X86

then the select statements except for the X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
can also go away.

      Arnd