Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE stop depending on CONFIG_EXPERT

From: Jeff Moyer
Date: Mon Jun 27 2016 - 09:39:37 EST


Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> When it was first introduced CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE depended on disabling
> CONFIG_ZONE_DMA, a configuration choice reserved for "experts".
> However, now that the ZONE_DMA conflict has been eliminated it no longer
> makes sense to require CONFIG_EXPERT.
>
> Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> mm/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> index 3e2daef3c946..d109a7a0c1c4 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING
> See Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.txt for more details.
>
> config ZONE_DEVICE
> - bool "Device memory (pmem, etc...) hotplug support" if EXPERT
> + bool "Device memory (pmem, etc...) hotplug support"
> depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
> depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
> depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP