Re: [PATCH] x86: CONFIG_EFI should select CONFIG_RELOCATABLE

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Jun 09 2011 - 11:35:57 EST


On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:23:48AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 06/09/2011 07:41 AM, Peter Jones wrote:
> >>
> >> Can we make this a depends on instead of select?
> >
> > Seems weird to me - when you're configuring the kernel, you're more likely
> > to know that you want EFI than to remember that that requires relocation.
> >
>
> Yes, but "select" is handled very poorly by Kconfig.

I think it's safe in this case.

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