Re: [PATCH 4/4] [HVCS] Select HVC_CONSOLE if HVCS is enabled.

From: Ben Collins
Date: Thu Nov 30 2006 - 10:05:11 EST


On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:32 +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> > If HVC_CONSOLE provides symbols that HVCS requires.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/char/Kconfig | 1 +
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
> > index 2af12fc..c94ecdc 100644
> > --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
> > @@ -598,6 +598,7 @@ config HVC_RTAS
> > config HVCS
> > tristate "IBM Hypervisor Virtual Console Server support"
> > depends on PPC_PSERIES
> > + select HVC_CONSOLE
> > help
> > Partitionable IBM Power5 ppc64 machines allow hosting of
> > firmware virtual consoles from one Linux partition by
>
>
> Why not a normal dependency?

Most of the HVC options are doing select on other HVC things (like
select HVC_DRIVER). So if this one needs to be a dependency, then it
would make more sense to clean up the HVC option group to do the same. I
just did the one-liner to make it work.
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