Re: uninline check_signature()

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > OR I'll have to disable HAS_IOMEM on m68k, and invent a new Kconfig
> > symbol for lots of other stuff that currently depends on HAS_IOMEM...
> 
> Well, as far as I'm concerned, you could also make all drivers that 
> actually need "check_signature()" do a Kconfig level
> 
> 	select CHECK_SIGNATURE
> 
> along with a
> 
> 	config CHECK_SIGNATURE
> 		bool
> 		default n
> 
> in lib/Kconfig, and thus make it totally independent of any hw/bus 
> features at all, and simply depend on whether it is needed or not. I'd be 
> ok with that, and it's certainly "correct" too.
> 
> Hmm?

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> ;-)

(will cook a patch when I find a timeslot)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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