[RFC PATCH] drivers/dax: Allow to include DEV_DAX_PMEM as builtin
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com
Sat Mar 30 16:42:05 AEDT 2019
This move the dependency to DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT such that only
if DEV_DAX_PMEM is built as module we can allow the compat support.
This allows to test the new code easily in a emulation setup where we
often build things without module support.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
---
drivers/dax/Kconfig | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dax/Kconfig b/drivers/dax/Kconfig
index 5ef624fe3934..e582e088b48c 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/dax/Kconfig
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ config DEV_DAX
config DEV_DAX_PMEM
tristate "PMEM DAX: direct access to persistent memory"
depends on LIBNVDIMM && NVDIMM_DAX && DEV_DAX
- depends on m # until we can kill DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT
default DEV_DAX
help
Support raw access to persistent memory. Note that this
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ config DEV_DAX_KMEM
config DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT
tristate "PMEM DAX: support the deprecated /sys/class/dax interface"
- depends on DEV_DAX_PMEM
+ depends on DEV_DAX_PMEM=m
default DEV_DAX_PMEM
help
Older versions of the libdaxctl library expect to find all
--
2.20.1
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