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Patch "init/Kconfig: keep Expert users menu together" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

init/Kconfig: keep Expert users menu together

to the 4.6-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
init-kconfig-keep-expert-users-menu-together.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 076501ff6ba265a473689c112eda9f1f34f620b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 16:06:53 -0700
Subject: init/Kconfig: keep Expert users menu together

From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>

commit 076501ff6ba265a473689c112eda9f1f34f620b5 upstream.

The "expert" menu was broken (split) such that all entries in it after KALLSYMS were displayed in the "General setup" area instead of in the "Expert users" area. Fix this by adding one kconfig dependency.

Yes, the Expert users menu is fragile. Problems like this have happened several times in the past. I will attempt to isolate the Expert users menu if there is interest in that.

Fixes 4d5d5664c900 ("x86: kallsyms: disable absolute percpu symbols on !SMP")
Cc Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
---
 init/Kconfig |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
init/Kconfig +1 -0
@@ -1423,6 +1423,7 @@ config KALLSYMS_ALL
 
 config KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU
 	bool
+	depends on KALLSYMS
 	default X86_64 && SMP
 
 config KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.6/init-kconfig-keep-expert-users-menu-together.patch