Currently, the VME_USER driver is in the staging tree Kconfig, unlike
other VME drivers already moved to the main portions of the kernel tree.
Its configuration is, however, nested into the VME_BUS config option,
which might be misleading.
Since the staging tree "[...] is used to hold stand-alone drivers and
filesystem that are not ready to be merged into the main portion of the
Linux kernel tree [...]"(from
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20090320172502.GA14647@kroah.com/T/),
staging drivers should appear nested into the Main Menu -> Device
Drivers -> Staging Drivers to make sure the user don't pick it without
being fully aware of its staging status as it could be the case in
Menu -> Device Drivers -> VME bridge support (the current location).
With this change menuconfig users will clearly know this is not a driver
in the main portion of the kernel tree and decide whether to build it or
not with that clearly in mind.
This change goes into the same direction of commit
<4b4cdf3979c32fa3d042d150f49449c74d048553> ("STAGING: Move staging
drivers back to staging-specific menu")
Signed-off-by: Bruno Moreira-Guedes <codeagain@codeagain.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f6e6d1d2b02385f11848022f154007ef191181c1.1650544175.git.codeagain@codeagain.dev
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Since commit 84af7a6194 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.
This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
I also fixed the indentation.
There are a variety of indentation styles found.
a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
e) 1 tab + '---help---' (correct indentation)
f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'
In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
following commend:
$ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:
- Have no license information of any form
These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:
GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Previously, VME bridge support was treated as any other driver (using
module_init() macro), but if VME bridge and vme_user (staging) drivers
were compiled into the kernel, then vme_user would attempt to register
itself before the VME core support had been loaded. This would result
in a kernel panic.
The load order of these built-in drivers is based on the order in which
drivers/staging/vme and driver/vme are compiled.
This patch changes the VME core driver to use the subsys_initcall()
macro which ensures that it is loaded before all other VME drivers
regardless of the order in which they are compiled.
Tested-by: Aaron Sierra <asierra@xes-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@ge.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This moves the VME core, VME board drivers, and VME bridge drivers out
of the drivers/staging/vme/ area to drivers/vme/.
The VME device drivers have not moved out yet due to some API questions
they are still working through, that should happen soon, hopefully.
Cc: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@ge.com>
Cc: Manohar Vanga <manohar.vanga@cern.ch>
Cc: Vincent Bossier <vincent.bossier@gmail.com>
Cc: "Emilio G. Cota" <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Bruno Moreira-Guedes