Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932200AbWJJTGk (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:06:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932198AbWJJTGj (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:06:39 -0400 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:19895 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932169AbWJJTGi (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:06:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:06:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Brent Casavant Reply-To: Brent Casavant To: Jan Engelhardt cc: Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Jeremy Higdon , Pat Gefre Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ioc4: Enable build on non-SN2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20061010140429.O71367@pkunk.americas.sgi.com> References: <20061010120928.V71367@pkunk.americas.sgi.com> <20061010103915.f412d770.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20061010131916.D71367@pkunk.americas.sgi.com> Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1639 Lines: 36 On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> Mostly curious: did you observe that this is required? > >> I always thought that Roman said that unknown config variables > >> caused a rescan by kconfig. IOW, I thought that it wouldn't > >> be observable by a user. Just wondering.. > > > >If it causes a rescan (I don't rightly know) it must have changed. > >I caught a bit of flak for an incorrectly ordered config statement > >once before, but that was a few years ago. > > I am sure it causes a rescan, because activating > CONFIG_NETFILTER for example makes some options available that are > defined before NETFILTER, such as IP_ROUTE_FWMARK, IP_VS, > NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CONNMARK and NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_NOTRACK, and > activating NETFILTER _will_ cause a rescan with `make oldconfig` - I > just tried. (Things are a little different with menuconfig/xconfig and > such of course) In my case I think it was the menuconfig or xconfig that someone complained about (I don't rightly remember which one). In any case, for the patch at hand, I could find no particular reason that the drivers/misc Kconfig line couldn't be moved up to preserve peace and harmony. Brent -- Brent Casavant All music is folk music. I ain't bcasavan@sgi.com never heard a horse sing a song. Silicon Graphics, Inc. -- Louis Armstrong - 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/