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authorStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>2013-05-21 13:49:35 +1000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-06-03 14:20:18 -0700
commit40b313608ad4ea655addd2ec6cdd106477ae8e15 (patch)
tree371f6ad524c7d85901bc9002ff2960ea10cb5154 /Documentation
parentaf5bc11e9aa19f72a2d5ccd44611cb6268a60a34 (diff)
Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG
Ever since commit 45f035ab9b8f ("CONFIG_HOTPLUG should be always on"), it has been basically impossible to build a kernel with CONFIG_HOTPLUG turned off. Remove all the remaining references to it. Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/SubmitChecklist2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt6
6 files changed, 8 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
index 1ce5ae329c04..5210a51c90fd 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ Description:
Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
force a rescan of all PCI buses in the system, and
re-discover previously removed devices.
- Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../msi_irqs/
Date: September, 2011
@@ -90,7 +89,6 @@ Contact: Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
Description:
Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
hot-remove the PCI device and any of its children.
- Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../pci_bus/.../rescan
Date: May 2011
@@ -99,7 +97,7 @@ Description:
Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
force a rescan of the bus and all child buses,
and re-discover devices removed earlier from this
- part of the device tree. Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
+ part of the device tree.
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../rescan
Date: January 2009
@@ -109,7 +107,6 @@ Description:
force a rescan of the device's parent bus and all
child buses, and re-discover devices removed earlier
from this part of the device tree.
- Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../reset
Date: July 2009
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
index dc0e33210d7e..2b7e32dfe00d 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
+++ b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
@@ -105,5 +105,5 @@ kernel patches.
same time, just various/random combinations of them]:
CONFIG_SMP, CONFIG_SYSFS, CONFIG_PROC_FS, CONFIG_INPUT, CONFIG_PCI,
- CONFIG_BLOCK, CONFIG_PM, CONFIG_HOTPLUG, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ,
+ CONFIG_BLOCK, CONFIG_PM, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ,
CONFIG_NET, CONFIG_INET=n (but latter with CONFIG_NET=y)
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
index 9f401350f502..0efd1b905b9d 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ A: When doing make defconfig, Enable CPU hotplug support
"Processor type and Features" -> Support for Hotpluggable CPUs
-Make sure that you have CONFIG_HOTPLUG, and CONFIG_SMP turned on as well.
+Make sure that you have CONFIG_SMP turned on as well.
You would need to enable CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU for SMP suspend/resume support
as well.
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches b/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches
index 843751c41fea..46286460462b 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches
@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ increase the chances of your change being accepted.
explicitly below the patch header.
* If your patch (or the driver) is affected by configuration options such as
- CONFIG_SMP or CONFIG_HOTPLUG, make sure it compiles for all configuration
- variants.
+ CONFIG_SMP, make sure it compiles for all configuration variants.
2. Adding functionality to existing drivers
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
index 3f429ed8b3b8..213859e69e88 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ Searching in menuconfig:
Example:
/hotplug
This lists all config symbols that contain "hotplug",
- e.g., HOTPLUG, HOTPLUG_CPU, MEMORY_HOTPLUG.
+ e.g., HOTPLUG_CPU, MEMORY_HOTPLUG.
For search help, enter / followed TAB-TAB-TAB (to highlight
<Help>) and Enter. This will tell you that you can also use
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt b/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt
index 4c945716a660..6424b130485c 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ you get the best hotplugging when you configure a highly modular system.
KERNEL HOTPLUG HELPER (/sbin/hotplug)
-When you compile with CONFIG_HOTPLUG, you get a new kernel parameter:
-/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug, which normally holds the pathname "/sbin/hotplug".
-That parameter names a program which the kernel may invoke at various times.
+There is a kernel parameter: /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug, which normally
+holds the pathname "/sbin/hotplug". That parameter names a program
+which the kernel may invoke at various times.
The /sbin/hotplug program can be invoked by any subsystem as part of its
reaction to a configuration change, from a thread in that subsystem.