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authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>2014-08-08 14:25:41 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-08 15:57:32 -0700
commitde5b56ba51f63973ceb5c184ee0855f0c8a13fc9 (patch)
treecaae1a83d7affec1752f0a5e443c87c38e0bafe3
parent8370edea81e321b8a976969753d6b2811e6d5ed6 (diff)
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kernel: build bin2c based on config option CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C
currently bin2c builds only if CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y. But bin2c will now be used by kexec too. So make it compilation dependent on CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C and this config option can be selected by CONFIG_KEXEC and CONFIG_IKCONFIG. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig1
-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig5
-rw-r--r--scripts/basic/Makefile2
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index c915cc6..98fe3df 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1582,6 +1582,7 @@ source kernel/Kconfig.hz
config KEXEC
bool "kexec system call"
+ select BUILD_BIN2C
---help---
kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index a291b7e..44f9ed3 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -783,8 +783,13 @@ endchoice
endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
+config BUILD_BIN2C
+ bool
+ default n
+
config IKCONFIG
tristate "Kernel .config support"
+ select BUILD_BIN2C
---help---
This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
diff --git a/scripts/basic/Makefile b/scripts/basic/Makefile
index afbc1cd..ec10d93 100644
--- a/scripts/basic/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/basic/Makefile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
# fixdep: Used to generate dependency information during build process
hostprogs-y := fixdep
-hostprogs-$(CONFIG_IKCONFIG) += bin2c
+hostprogs-$(CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C) += bin2c
always := $(hostprogs-y)
# fixdep is needed to compile other host programs
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