On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 11:53:21PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 10:35 PM Michal Suchánek <msucha...@suse.de> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 10:22:36PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:35 PM Michal Suchanek <msucha...@suse.de> wrote: > > > > > > > > When using dummy-tools STACKPROTECTOR_PER_TASK is unconditionally > > > > selected. This defeats the purpose of the all-enabled tool. > > > > > > > > Description copied from arm > > > > > > > > Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahi...@kernel.org> > > > > Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msucha...@suse.de> > > > > > > > > > Could you explain what problem > > > this patch is trying to solve? > > > > The option cannot be disabled when compiler has the required capability. > > > Yes. > Currently, this symbol claims "def_bool y", > so there is no way to disable it. > > But, it comes from the nature of Kconfig in general. > > dummy-tools is completely unrelated here.
dummy-tools makes all configuration options available in order to be able to author configuration files on system different from the one where the kernel is built. This prevents authoring a configuration file with this option disabled. Thanks Michal
