[v2,1/2] powerpc/cell: Drop select of MEMORY_HOTPLUG
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Sat Dec 3 22:28:13 AEDT 2016
On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 09:50:45 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> SPU_FS selects MEMORY_HOTPLUG, which is problematic because
> MEMORY_HOTPLUG is user selectable, meaning we can end up with a broken
> .config where MEMORY_HOTPLUG is enabled but its dependencies are not,
> leading to build breakages.
>
> The select of MEMORY_HOTPLUG for SPU_FS was added back in 2006, in
> commit 4da30d15b6d5 ("[POWERPC] spufs: fix memory hotplug dependency").
>
> However we reworked the spufs code and removed the dependency on memory
> hotplug in 2007 in commit 78bde53e351b ("[POWERPC] spufs: remove need
> for struct page for SPEs").
>
> So drop the select as it's no longer needed and causes problems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Series applied to powerpc next.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/577ec789a79eb34f85a26c01f38516
cheers
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