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([2605:6000:e947:6500:6680:99ff:fe6f:cb54]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id s83sm14367185oif.33.2019.12.30.17.42.02 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:42:02 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Why is CONFIG_VT forced on? To: Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <9b79fb95-f20c-f299-f568-0ffb60305f04@landley.net> From: Rob Landley Message-ID: <018540ef-0327-78dc-ea5c-a43318f1f640@landley.net> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:45:51 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/30/19 6:59 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: > # > # Character devices > # > CONFIG_TTY=y > # CONFIG_VT is not set > > But first you must set/enable EXPERT. See the bool prompt. Wait, the if doesn't _disable_ the symbol? It disables _editability_ of the symbol, but the symbol can still be on (and displayed) when the if is false? (Why would...) Ok. Thanks for pointing that out. Any idea why the menuconfig help text has no mention of this? Rob