[PATCH] device coredump: fix minor issue in Kconfig file

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Wed Nov 19 05:35:47 PST 2014


On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 05:28 -0800, Amitkumar Karwar wrote:
> if "CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP=y" is added to configuration file, it
> gets removed when final configuration file is generated. The
> reason is it requires CONFIG_WANT_DEV_COREDUMP to be enabled.
> 
> Currently "make menuconfig" doesn't display an option to enable
> WANT_DEV_COREDUMP. This patch updates Kconfig so that user can
> enable WANT_DEV_COREDUMP.

This is completely intentional - drivers should "select
WANT_DEV_COREDUMP" and users are only able to set "ALLOW_DEV_COREDUMP=n"
to prevent it.

johannes



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