Hi Narendra,
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 7:47 PM <Narendra.K@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 04:11:04PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 21:44, <Narendra.K@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Narendra K <Narendra.K@xxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > For the EFI_RCI2_TABLE kconfig option, 'make oldconfig' asks the user
> > > for input as it is a new kconfig option in kernel version 5.4. This patch
> > > modifies the kconfig option to ask the user for input only when CONFIG_X86
> > > or CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST is set to y.
> > >
> > > The patch also makes EFI_RCI2_TABLE kconfig option depend on CONFIG_EFI.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Narendra K <Narendra.K@xxxxxxxx>
> > > drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 5 ++++-
> > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
> > > index 178ee8106828..6e4c46e8a954 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
> > > @@ -181,7 +181,10 @@ config RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION
> > > reboots.
> > >
> > > config EFI_RCI2_TABLE
> > > - bool "EFI Runtime Configuration Interface Table Version 2 Support"
> > > + bool
> > > + prompt "EFI RCI Table Version 2 Support" if X86 || COMPILE_TEST
Why the split of bool and prompt?
Why not simply add a single line "depends on X86 || COMPILE_TEST"?
> >
> > You can drop the || COMPILE_TEST as well.
>
> I will drop this part of the change in the next version of the patch.
Why drop that part? Isn't it good to have more compile test coverage?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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