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>
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
index 1ce5ae3..5210a51 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@
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 @@
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 @@
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 @@
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 dc0e332..2b7e32d 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
+++ b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
@@ -105,5 +105,5 @@
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 9f40135..0efd1b9 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
"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 843751c..4628646 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches
@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@
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 3f429ed..213859e 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
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 4c94571..6424b13 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@
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.