RE: [PATCH 1/1] Staging: hv: Add the necessary dependencies tohyperv Kconfig

[KY Srinivasan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: H Hartley Sweeten [mailto:hartleys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 2:44 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan; gregkh@xxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Haiyang Zhang
> Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/1] Staging: hv: Add the necessary dependencies to hyperv
> Kconfig
> 
> On Wednesday, May 04, 2011 11:52 AM, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> >
> > The vmbus driver dependes on ACPI and PCI subsystems. Change
> > Kconfig to reflect this.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/hv/Kconfig |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/hv/Kconfig
> > index 76f0756..5e0c9f6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/hv/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/Kconfig
> > @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
> >  config HYPERV
> >  	tristate "Microsoft Hyper-V client drivers"
> > -	depends on X86 && m
> > +	depends on X86 && ACPI && PCI && m
> >  	default n
> >  	help
> > 	  Select this option to run Linux as a Hyper-V client operating
> 
> ACPI itself depends on PCI.  It also depends on IA64 || X86.  Will the
> vmbus driver work with IA64?  If so the depends on could just be:
> 
> 	depends on ACPI && m

Good point; vmbus will not work on IA64 though. So, minimally we would want 
X86 && ACPI. I will resend this with this change.

Regards,

K. Y
> 
> Also, default n is redudant since n is the default anyway.
> 
> Regards,
> Hartley

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