From gregkh@suse.de Wed Nov 16 11:16:30 2005 Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:27:07 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: HOTPLUG: always enable the .config option, unless EMBEDDED With modules, dynamic /dev, and uevents, people really want CONFIG_HOTPLUG to be enabled in their kernels. If not, they can still disable it, but it is discouraged. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- init/Kconfig | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- gregkh-2.6.orig/init/Kconfig +++ gregkh-2.6/init/Kconfig @@ -197,14 +197,6 @@ config AUDITSYSCALL can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, such as SELinux. -config HOTPLUG - bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if !ARCH_S390 - default ARCH_S390 - help - This option is provided for the case where no in-kernel-tree - modules require HOTPLUG functionality, but a module built - outside the kernel tree does. Such modules require Y here. - config IKCONFIG bool "Kernel .config support" ---help--- @@ -289,6 +281,15 @@ config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. +config HOTPLUG + bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED + default y + help + This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent + capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider + disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a + dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. + config PRINTK default y bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED