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author | Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> | 2020-03-11 15:57:34 -0700 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-03-12 17:17:29 +0100 |
commit | 8d7dc56ee908df8781fd9ffdeb860b9ce56eed15 (patch) | |
tree | b1cbb046ce892233ae9bd810a9a7de29bfc048a7 /drivers/char/Kconfig | |
parent | bb3a151dd42765acc8f469ff994de3ab31f15a95 (diff) | |
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char: group dev configs togther
Group /dev/{mem,kmem,nvram,raw,port} driver configs together.
This also means that tty configs are now grouped together instead
of being split up.
This just moves Kconfig lines around. There are no other changes.
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200311225736.32147-2-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/Kconfig | 100 |
1 files changed, 50 insertions, 50 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig index 26956c006987..b77f796a5ace 100644 --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig @@ -7,25 +7,6 @@ menu "Character devices" source "drivers/tty/Kconfig" -config DEVMEM - bool "/dev/mem virtual device support" - default y - help - Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/mem device. - The /dev/mem device is used to access areas of physical - memory. - When in doubt, say "Y". - -config DEVKMEM - bool "/dev/kmem virtual device support" - # On arm64, VMALLOC_START < PAGE_OFFSET, which confuses kmem read/write - depends on !ARM64 - help - Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/kmem device. The - /dev/kmem device is rarely used, but can be used for certain - kind of kernel debugging operations. - When in doubt, say "N". - source "drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig" source "drivers/tty/serdev/Kconfig" @@ -220,29 +201,6 @@ config NWFLASH source "drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig" -config NVRAM - tristate "/dev/nvram support" - depends on X86 || HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS - default M68K || PPC - ---help--- - If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/nvram - with major number 10 and minor number 144 using mknod ("man mknod"), - you get read and write access to the non-volatile memory. - - /dev/nvram may be used to view settings in NVRAM or to change them - (with some utility). It could also be used to frequently - save a few bits of very important data that may not be lost over - power-off and for which writing to disk is too insecure. Note - however that most NVRAM space in a PC belongs to the BIOS and you - should NEVER idly tamper with it. See Ralf Brown's interrupt list - for a guide to the use of CMOS bytes by your BIOS. - - This memory is conventionally called "NVRAM" on PowerPC machines, - "CMOS RAM" on PCs, "NVRAM" on Ataris and "PRAM" on Macintoshes. - - To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the - module will be called nvram. - # # These legacy RTC drivers just cause too many conflicts with the generic # RTC framework ... let's not even try to coexist any more. @@ -431,6 +389,48 @@ config NSC_GPIO pc8736x_gpio drivers. If those drivers are built as modules, this one will be too, named nsc_gpio +config DEVMEM + bool "/dev/mem virtual device support" + default y + help + Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/mem device. + The /dev/mem device is used to access areas of physical + memory. + When in doubt, say "Y". + +config DEVKMEM + bool "/dev/kmem virtual device support" + # On arm64, VMALLOC_START < PAGE_OFFSET, which confuses kmem read/write + depends on !ARM64 + help + Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/kmem device. The + /dev/kmem device is rarely used, but can be used for certain + kind of kernel debugging operations. + When in doubt, say "N". + +config NVRAM + tristate "/dev/nvram support" + depends on X86 || HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS + default M68K || PPC + ---help--- + If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/nvram + with major number 10 and minor number 144 using mknod ("man mknod"), + you get read and write access to the non-volatile memory. + + /dev/nvram may be used to view settings in NVRAM or to change them + (with some utility). It could also be used to frequently + save a few bits of very important data that may not be lost over + power-off and for which writing to disk is too insecure. Note + however that most NVRAM space in a PC belongs to the BIOS and you + should NEVER idly tamper with it. See Ralf Brown's interrupt list + for a guide to the use of CMOS bytes by your BIOS. + + This memory is conventionally called "NVRAM" on PowerPC machines, + "CMOS RAM" on PCs, "NVRAM" on Ataris and "PRAM" on Macintoshes. + + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the + module will be called nvram. + config RAW_DRIVER tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN)" depends on BLOCK @@ -452,6 +452,14 @@ config MAX_RAW_DEVS Default is 256. Increase this number in case you need lots of raw devices. +config DEVPORT + bool "/dev/port character device" + depends on ISA || PCI + default y + help + Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/port device. The /dev/port + device is similar to /dev/mem, but for I/O ports. + config HPET bool "HPET - High Precision Event Timer" if (X86 || IA64) default n @@ -511,14 +519,6 @@ config TELCLOCK /sys/devices/platform/telco_clock, with a number of files for controlling the behavior of this hardware. -config DEVPORT - bool "/dev/port character device" - depends on ISA || PCI - default y - help - Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/port device. The /dev/port - device is similar to /dev/mem, but for I/O ports. - source "drivers/s390/char/Kconfig" source "drivers/char/xillybus/Kconfig" |