linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC 04/35] x86/Kconfig: drop superfluous "select SPARSEMEM

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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:06:30 +0200
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Subject: [PATCH RFC 04/35] x86/Kconfig: drop superfluous "select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP"

Now handled by the core automatically once SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
is selected.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 58d890fe2100e..e431d1c06fecd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1552,7 +1552,6 @@ config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
 	def_bool y
 	select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32
 	select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64
-	select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP if X86_64
 
 config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
 	def_bool X86_64 || (NUMA && X86_32)
-- 
2.50.1