Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750782AbWB0DwG (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:52:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750838AbWB0DwG (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:52:06 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:31381 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750782AbWB0DwE (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:52:04 -0500 Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:51:09 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Brown, Len" Cc: rdunlap@xenotime.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc4-mm2 configs Message-Id: <20060226195109.051bb53f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 855 Lines: 23 "Brown, Len" wrote: > > > >> a. why does SONY_ACPI default to m ? Other similar options > >are default n. > > > >Because I got heartily sick of losing the setting each time I > >went back to a mainline kernel and did `make oldconfig'. > > IIR the recommendation from Roman on these things was > to remove the default entirely. If you have a favorite > .config file with =m in it, then make oldconfig should > preserve that choice. > Nope. Once you remove the Kconfig entry entirely (ie: go back to a mainline kernel), `make oldconfig' will rub that config entry out completely. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/