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Subject[PATCH 1/3 v2] char: group dev configs togther
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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.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
---
v2: no change

drivers/char/Kconfig | 100 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

--- linux-next-20200311.orig/drivers/char/Kconfig
+++ linux-next-20200311/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"
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