Subject: [patch 1/2] kcmp: Make it to depend on CONFIG_KCMP

From: [email-masked] (Cyrill Gorcunov)
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:54:32 +0400

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 01:42:56PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Index: linux-2.6.git/kernel/Makefile
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.git.orig/kernel/Makefile
> > +++ linux-2.6.git/kernel/Makefile
> > @@ -25,9 +25,7 @@ endif
> >  obj-y += sched/
> >  obj-y += power/
> >  
> > -ifeq ($(CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE),y)
> > -obj-$(CONFIG_X86) += kcmp.o
> > -endif
> > +obj-$(CONFIG_KCMP) += kcmp.o
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_FREEZER) += freezer.o
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_PROFILING) += profile.o
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_STACKTRACE) += stacktrace.o
> 
> This permits people to select kcmp with CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE=n. 
> Is there any point in doing that?
> 
> What would be wrong with just doing
> 
> 	obj-$(CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE) += kcmp.o

I think this syscall is usefull even without c/r stuff.
That's why I made it with separate config option.