On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 05:28 -0800, Amitkumar Karwar wrote: > if "CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP=y" is added to configuration file, it > gets removed when final configuration file is generated. The > reason is it requires CONFIG_WANT_DEV_COREDUMP to be enabled. > > Currently "make menuconfig" doesn't display an option to enable > WANT_DEV_COREDUMP. This patch updates Kconfig so that user can > enable WANT_DEV_COREDUMP.
This is completely intentional - drivers should "select WANT_DEV_COREDUMP" and users are only able to set "ALLOW_DEV_COREDUMP=n" to prevent it. johannes
