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| author | Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> | 2014-08-08 14:25:41 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-08-08 15:57:32 -0700 |
| commit | de5b56ba51f63973ceb5c184ee0855f0c8a13fc9 (patch) | |
| tree | caae1a83d7affec1752f0a5e443c87c38e0bafe3 | |
| parent | 8370edea81e321b8a976969753d6b2811e6d5ed6 (diff) | |
| download | linux-de5b56ba51f63973ceb5c184ee0855f0c8a13fc9.tar.bz2 | |
kernel: build bin2c based on config option CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C
currently bin2c builds only if CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y. But bin2c will now be
used by kexec too. So make it compilation dependent on CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C
and this config option can be selected by CONFIG_KEXEC and CONFIG_IKCONFIG.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/basic/Makefile | 2 |
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index c915cc6e40be..98fe3df6df82 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -1582,6 +1582,7 @@ source kernel/Kconfig.hz config KEXEC bool "kexec system call" + select BUILD_BIN2C ---help--- kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index a291b7ef4738..44f9ed3dae22 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -783,8 +783,13 @@ endchoice endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" +config BUILD_BIN2C + bool + default n + config IKCONFIG tristate "Kernel .config support" + select BUILD_BIN2C ---help--- This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation diff --git a/scripts/basic/Makefile b/scripts/basic/Makefile index afbc1cd69ac5..ec10d9345bc2 100644 --- a/scripts/basic/Makefile +++ b/scripts/basic/Makefile @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ # fixdep: Used to generate dependency information during build process hostprogs-y := fixdep -hostprogs-$(CONFIG_IKCONFIG) += bin2c +hostprogs-$(CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C) += bin2c always := $(hostprogs-y) # fixdep is needed to compile other host programs |