Under some circumstances it may be desirable to configure the watchdog core as module. Enable it. As part of this change, mark pretimeout governors as depending on the watchdog core. This is necessary to prevent governors from being built into the kernel if the watchdog core is built as module. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/watchdog/Kconfig | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig index ac37a14439c7..c2d6934508ee 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ menuconfig WATCHDOG if WATCHDOG config WATCHDOG_CORE - bool "WatchDog Timer Driver Core" + tristate "WatchDog Timer Driver Core" ---help--- Say Y here if you want to use the new watchdog timer driver core. This driver provides a framework for all watchdog timer drivers @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ if WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV config WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV_NOOP tristate "Noop watchdog pretimeout governor" + depends on WATCHDOG_CORE default WATCHDOG_CORE help Noop watchdog pretimeout governor, only an informational @@ -82,6 +83,7 @@ config WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV_NOOP config WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV_PANIC tristate "Panic watchdog pretimeout governor" + depends on WATCHDOG_CORE default WATCHDOG_CORE help Panic watchdog pretimeout governor, on watchdog pretimeout -- 2.7.4