Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: Only compile OF_DYNAMIC on PowerPC pseries and iseries

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:13:02 +1100

On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 10:25 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> Only two architectures use the OF node reference counting and reclaim bits.
> There is no need to compile it for the rest of the PowerPC platforms or for
> any of the other architectures.  This patch makes iseries and pseries
> select CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC, and makes it default to off for everything else.
> 
> It is still safe to turn on CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC on all architectures, it just
> isn't necessary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <[email-masked]>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>

Cheers,
Ben.