Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:55:31 -0800
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: len.brown@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc4-mm2 configs
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On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:51:09 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:

> "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> 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.

Yes.  So you have it =m so that it will build in your
test builds, right?  or some other reason?

thanks,
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~Randy
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