[PATCH] of: Only compile OF_DYNAMIC on PowerPC pseries and iseries

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Feb 16 14:13:02 EST 2012


On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 10:25 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> Only two architectures use the OF node reference counting and reclaim bits.
> There is no need to compile it for the rest of the PowerPC platforms or for
> any of the other architectures.  This patch makes iseries and pseries
> select CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC, and makes it default to off for everything else.
> 
> It is still safe to turn on CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC on all architectures, it just
> isn't necessary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>

Cheers,
Ben.




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