Re: [2.6.24 patch] restore blackfin HARDWARE_PM support

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Fri Dec 28 2007 - 14:23:41 EST


On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 02:14:04PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> * Adrian Bunk (adrian.bunk@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > This patch restores the blackfin Hardware Performance Monitor Profiling
> > support that was killed by
> > commit 09cadedbdc01f1a4bea1f427d4fb4642eaa19da9.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
>
> Yep, this one too must be put back, but kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation
> seems like the wrong spot for a blackfin-specific config option (and
> this will break the instrumentation menu removal patches in -mm).
>
> Can we put this in arch/blackfin/Kconfig instead ?

No, this is a user visible option that belongs into the same menu as
"Profling support".

> > ---
> >
> > kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation | 9 +++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> >
> > 942996f33f81726c5edb012d61ecdad70c55884d
> > diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation b/kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation
> > index 97c76ca..e023671 100644
> > --- a/kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation
> > +++ b/kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation
> > @@ -44,2 +44,11 @@ config OPROFILE_MPCORE
> >
> > +config HARDWARE_PM
> > + tristate "Hardware Performance Monitor Profiling"
> > + depends on BLACKFIN && PROFILING
> > + help
> > + take use of hardware performance monitor to profiling the kernel
> > + and application.
> > +
> > + If unsure, say N.
> > +
> > config KPROBES
> >
>
> Mathieu Desnoyers

cu
Adrian

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