Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932190AbWEWMwn (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 08:52:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751340AbWEWMwn (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 08:52:43 -0400 Received: from mail.ocs.com.au ([202.147.117.210]:31171 "EHLO mail.ocs.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751338AbWEWMwm (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 08:52:42 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.0 06/18/2004 with nmh-1.1-RC1 From: Keith Owens To: Roman Zippel cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: i386 Kconfig options out of order In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 May 2006 11:30:39 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 22:51:13 +1000 Message-ID: <8522.1148388673@ocs3> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 926 Lines: 22 Roman Zippel (on Tue, 23 May 2006 11:30:39 +0200 (CEST)) wrote: >Hi, > >On Tue, 23 May 2006, Keith Owens wrote: > >> Options NUMA and EFI in arch/i386/Kconfig depend on ACPI but they >> appear before the ACPI option. make oldconfig with no initial setting >> for CONFIG_ACPI will prompt for these options, but if you then say No >> to CONFIG_ACPI the options will silently be turned off. > >That's the normal behaviour. Fair enough. I was switching between configs with ACPI=y and ACPI=n, every time I editted .config to remove the current ACPI setting and ran oldconfig to insert the new setting, I got prompted for these extra options. Forward dependencies in configs, yuck. - 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/