On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> The dependency of SUSPEND_SMP on HOTPLUG_CPU is quite unintuitive, so 
> what about something like the patch below?

Yeah, this looks reasonable.

May I suggest another level of indirection, though:

> +config SUSPEND_SMP_POSSIBLE
> +     bool
> +     depends on (X86 && !X86_VOYAGER) || (PPC64 && (PPC_PSERIES || PPC_PMAC))
> +     depends on SMP
> +     default y

How about making this a bit more split up, and do it as

        # SMP suspend is possible on ..
        config SUSPEND_SMP_POSSIBLE
                bool
                depends on (X86 && !X86_VOYAGER) || (PPC64 && (PPC_PSERIES || 
PPC_PMAC))
                default y

        # UP suspend is possible on ..
        config SUSPEND_UP_POSSIBLE
                bool
                depends on X86 || PPC64_SWSUSP || FRV || PPC32
                default y 

        # Can we suspend?
        config SUSPEND_POSSIBLE
                bool
                depends on (SMP && SUSPEND_SMP_POSSIBLE) || 
(SUSPEND_UP_POSSIBLE && !SMP)
                default y

and then we have just a

        config SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
                bool "Software Suspend (Hibernation)"
                depends on PM && SWAP
                depends on SUSPEND_POSSIBLE

        config SUSPEND_SMP
                bool
                depends on SOFTWARE_SUSPEND && SMP
                select HOTPLUG_CPU
                default y

and now each of the config options looks pretty simple and describe one 
thing.

[ For extra bonus points: the SUSPEND_POSSIBLE thing is still pretty 
  complicated, and it might actually be a better idea to make it a 
  per-arch config option, and just make the x86/arch say

        config SUSPEND_POSSIBLE
                bool
                depends on !(X86_VOYAGER && SMP)
                default y

  instead: since SUSPEND_POSSIBLE is always true on x86 regardless of SMP 
  or not, just not on X86_VOYAGER. Then, each architecture can have its 
  own private rules for whether that architecture has SUSPEND_POSSIBLE or 
  not, so on ppc, it might look like

        config SUSPEND_POSSIBLE
                bool
                depends on (PPC64 && (PPC_PSERIES || PPC_PMAC)) || PPC_SWSUSP
                bool y

  or something, but the point is, now the complexity is a per-architecture 
  thing, so other architectures simply don't have to care any more! ]

And the user only ever sees one single question: the one for 
"SOFTWARE_SUSPEND". All the others would directly flow either from the 
architecture choice, or from that.

Anybody willing to rewrite it that way?

                        Linus
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