[PATCH] logfs: clarify MTD dependency
Michal Marek
mmarek at suse.com
Fri Nov 27 06:50:05 PST 2015
On 2015-11-27 15:30, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 27 November 2015 15:14:06 Michal Marek wrote:
>>
>> Hi Arnd,
>>
>> I hit this as well and was about to submit a slightly different fix. Can
>> you try the logfs portion of the below patch? Proper changelog is to be
>> done, but the gist of the patch is that IS_REACHABLE(CONFIG_FOO)
>> evaluates to 1 if CONFIG_FOO=y or we are building a module and
>> CONFIG_FOO=m.
>>
>
> I thought about doing it that way, and I'm sure that also worked.
> The possible behaviors are basically:
>
> a) before your original patch, building logfs with CONFIG_MTD=m would
> silently leave out MTD support, which was rather confusing.
>
> b) with my patch, it becomes impossible to have logfs as the built-in
> root file system on a block device while also using CONFIG_MTD=m,
> and that may be slightly annoying
>
> c) your patch restores a), but makes it work in the case where both
> logfs and mtd are loadable modules, which is an improvement but
> may still confuse users.
>
> My preference is still version b) as I sent, but I don't really mind
> your version either.
I used the IS_REACHABLE macro because it hides the boolean expressions
nicely :). But I also do not insist on a particular solution. Jörn, what
would be your preference?
Thanks,
Michal
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