Re: [PATCH v2] lib: make sg_pool tristate instead of bool

[Ming Lin]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The recently added Kconfig controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> lib/Kconfig:config SG_POOL
> lib/Kconfig:    def_bool n
>
> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone,
> and that tripped my audit looking for modular code that is essentially
> orphaned (i.e. module_exit, and .remove fcns in non-modular drivers.)
>
> In the following discussion, Ming Lin indicated that the original
> intention was to have it tristate, so here we convert it accordingly.
>
> Also fix up a couple spelling issues that appear in the surrounding
> patch context.
>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Ming Lin <ming.l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> [v2: drop modular code removal patch in favour of supporting a modular
>  build via a one line Kconfig patch as per Ming's comments.  Build tested
>  for allmodconfig on ARM and x86-64 on linux-next.   ]
>
>  lib/Kconfig | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
> index e04f168f8f42..8de5868804b5 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig
> @@ -528,13 +528,13 @@ config SG_SPLIT
>         help
>          Provides a helper to split scatterlists into chunks, each chunk being
>          a scatterlist. This should be selected by a driver or an API which
> -        whishes to split a scatterlist amongst multiple DMA channels.
> +        wishes to split a scatterlist amongst multiple DMA channels.
>
>  config SG_POOL
> -       def_bool n
> +       def_tristate n
>         help
>          Provides a helper to allocate chained scatterlists. This should be
> -        selected by a driver or an API which whishes to allocate chained
> +        selected by a driver or an API which wishes to allocate chained
>          scatterlist.
>
>  #

Looks good.

Acked-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.