Re: [PATCH] Fix sparsemem configuration

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Oct 13 2009 - 22:51:04 EST


On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:05:30 +0100 Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Currently, sparsemem is only available if EXPERIMENTAL is enabled.
> However, it hasn't ever been marked experimental.
>
> It's been about four years since sparsemem was merged, and we have
> platforms which depend on it; allow architectures to decide whether
> sparsemem should be the default memory model.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> --
> mm/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> index 2477607..95b2965 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ config DISCONTIGMEM
>
> config SPARSEMEM
> def_bool y
> - depends on SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
> + depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
>
> config FLATMEM
> def_bool y

Can you suggest which kernel version(s) we should merge this into? I'm
struggling.

Ta.
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