kernel: build bin2c based on config option CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C
authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Fri, 8 Aug 2014 21:25:41 +0000 (14:25 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 8 Aug 2014 22:57:32 +0000 (15:57 -0700)
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>
arch/x86/Kconfig
init/Kconfig
scripts/basic/Makefile

index c915cc6e40be0e47f1b3f68c4ba8ff8405256a5b..98fe3df6df82a451edf46bb3716b17fd1dc0ef12 100644 (file)
@@ -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
index a291b7ef473893891481f188b81f7dfce1550942..44f9ed3dae2286a80792918b79c50870317410c4 100644 (file)
@@ -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
index afbc1cd69ac5f30bcc4c93173215818dc9e169ba..ec10d9345bc2d9b978d8cae4d85bf2fd89ab121c 100644 (file)
@@ -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