Commit de5b56ba authored by Vivek Goyal's avatar Vivek Goyal Committed by Linus Torvalds

kernel: build bin2c based on config option CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C

currently bin2c builds only if CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y. But bin2c will now be
used by kexec too.  So make it compilation dependent on CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C
and this config option can be selected by CONFIG_KEXEC and CONFIG_IKCONFIG.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 8370edea
......@@ -1582,6 +1582,7 @@ source kernel/Kconfig.hz
config KEXEC
bool "kexec system call"
select BUILD_BIN2C
---help---
kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot
......
......@@ -783,8 +783,13 @@ endchoice
endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
config BUILD_BIN2C
bool
default n
config IKCONFIG
tristate "Kernel .config support"
select BUILD_BIN2C
---help---
This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
......
......@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
# fixdep: Used to generate dependency information during build process
hostprogs-y := fixdep
hostprogs-$(CONFIG_IKCONFIG) += bin2c
hostprogs-$(CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C) += bin2c
always := $(hostprogs-y)
# fixdep is needed to compile other host programs
......
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