Re: [PATCH] memblock: add NO_BOOTMEM config symbol

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

(cc'ing hpa)

On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 09:11:11PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> With the NO_BOOTMEM symbol added archistectures may now
> use the following syntax to tell that they do not need bootmem:
> 
> 	select NO_BOOTMEM
> 
> This is much more convinient than adding a new kconfig symbol
> which was otherwise required.
> 
> Addign this symbol does not conflict with the architctures that
> already define their own symbol.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks.

> ---
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> index 7c56971..af0047d 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
>  config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
>  	boolean
>  
> +config NO_BOOTMEM
> +	boolean
> +
>  # eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
>  config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
>  	bool "Allow for memory hot-add"

-- 
tejun