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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2007-10-16 23:30:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-17 08:43:00 -0700
commit3e6c6f630a5282df8f3393a59f10eb9c56536d23 (patch)
tree744539fb9d35425784149e2f015589d593e2b968 /drivers/char/Kconfig
parentfd5eea4214f72bd7ac77c1c5346a9c096319131a (diff)
Delay creation of khcvd thread
This changes hvc_init() to be called only when someone actually uses the hvc_console driver. Dave Jones complained when profiling bootup. hvc_console used to only be for Power aka pSeries: now lguest and Xen both want it built-in in case the kernel is a guest under one of those, even though usually it will be a native boot. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/Kconfig4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
index 1232ace097e..57b801716fb 100644
--- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
@@ -585,8 +585,8 @@ config TIPAR
config HVC_DRIVER
bool
help
- Users of pSeries machines that want to utilize the hvc console front-end
- module for their backend console driver should select this option.
+ Generic "hypervisor virtual console" infrastructure for various
+ hypervisors (pSeries, Xen, lguest).
It will automatically be selected if one of the back-end console drivers
is selected.