linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 02/36] arm64: Kconfig: drop superfluous "select SPARSEMEM

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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:12:18 +0100
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 02/36] arm64: Kconfig: drop superfluous "select
 SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP"

On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 12:01:06AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Now handled by the core automatically once SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
> is selected.

Do you plan to do this for other cases then I guess? Or was this an
outlier? I guess I will see :)

>
> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@...nel.org>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

LGTM, so:

Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>

> ---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index e9bbfacc35a64..b1d1f2ff2493b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -1570,7 +1570,6 @@ source "kernel/Kconfig.hz"
>  config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
>  	def_bool y
>  	select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
> -	select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
>
>  config HW_PERF_EVENTS
>  	def_bool y
> --
> 2.50.1
>