Re: [2.6 patch] some fixups for the X86_NUMAQ dependencies

From: Martin J. Bligh
Date: Mon Feb 20 2006 - 11:32:18 EST


Adrian Bunk wrote:
You must always ensure to fulfill the dependencies of what you are select'ing.


Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>

---

arch/i386/Kconfig | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.16-rc3-mm1-full/arch/i386/Kconfig.old 2006-02-20 00:12:50.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc3-mm1-full/arch/i386/Kconfig 2006-02-20 00:17:57.000000000 +0100
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@
config X86_NUMAQ
bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)"
+ select SMP
select NUMA
help
This option is used for getting Linux to run on a (IBM/Sequent) NUMA
@@ -419,6 +420,7 @@

Surely NUMA should select SMP, not NUMA-Q?

config NOHIGHMEM
bool "off"
+ depends on !X86_NUMAQ
---help---
Linux can use up to 64 Gigabytes of physical memory on x86 systems.
However, the address space of 32-bit x86 processors is only 4
@@ -455,6 +457,7 @@
config HIGHMEM4G
bool "4GB"
+ depends on !X86_NUMAQ
help
Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and between 1 and 4
gigabytes of physical RAM.
@@ -522,10 +525,6 @@
default n if X86_PC
default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT)
-# Need comments to help the hapless user trying to turn on NUMA support
-comment "NUMA (NUMA-Q) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support"
- depends on X86_NUMAQ && (!HIGHMEM64G || !SMP)
-

Hmm. ISTR the reason we put that in there in the first place was that
NUMA-Q got mysteriously hidden by other deps before, and it wasn't clear how to select it. Perhaps we just had some of the deps backwards.

M.
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