Re: [PATCH] bug: avoid Kconfig warning for BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION

[Rik van Riel]

On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 17:42 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST option is normally meant for kernel developers
> rather than production machines and is guarded by
> CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL.
> 
> In contrast, the newly added CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION is meant
> for security hardening and may be used on systems that intentionally
> do not enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL. In this configuration, we get
> a warning from Kconfig about the mismatched dependencies:
> 
> warning: (BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION) selects DEBUG_LIST which has unmet
> direct dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL)
> 
> This annotates the DEBUG_LIST option to be selectable by
> BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION when DEBUG_KERNEL is disabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 40cd725cfc7f ("bug: Provide toggle for BUG on data
> corruption")
> 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>