Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755767AbXIIEZD (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Sep 2007 00:25:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751422AbXIIEYy (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Sep 2007 00:24:54 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.178]:38101 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751372AbXIIEYx (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Sep 2007 00:24:53 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=a2YiE2FD9dbpSrcsn2ury3hFCde0eaPvaNdNZ+QsCIFbFXYPGKX49AEd+o2rCLQiXKSgfjGHv3Ok7pzPcHmXNSsj65b1q2WsevDKM7gRUCKc6dh2UeYcH2Fg34W3o044NhraF/Unza5hAYvnvdkK4gxIkYjXwhUD/OTnl3Mq4PI= Message-ID: <86802c440709082124q518b5873v5f8a4d6416b1186a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 21:24:53 -0700 From: "Yinghai Lu" To: "James C. Georgas" , "Andi Kleen" Subject: Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option Cc: "Randy Dunlap" , lkml In-Reply-To: <1189309736.13467.77.camel@Tachyon.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1189291899.13467.20.camel@Tachyon.home> <20070908180904.656f3d03.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070908181607.4f36479c.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <1189309736.13467.77.camel@Tachyon.home> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1407 Lines: 34 On 9/8/07, James C. Georgas wrote: > On Sat, 2007-08-09 at 18:16 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > 2.6.23-rc5-git1 builds for me when I follow those steps... > > except for some Section mismatch warnings. > > > > OK, it worked for me also, using torvalds/linux-2.6.git. The behaviour > of the "select" directive in Kconfig appears to have changed since > 2.6.22.6. It now turns on ACPI, even when PM is not selected. > > This still looks broken to me, because ACPI gets selected by ACPI_NUMA, > and ACPI depends on PM, but PM is not selected. It works out in the end, > as far as the build is concerned, but it still bugs me. > > Does anyone object to the idea of a selected item automatically > selecting its own dependencies? > > For example, you would only need to specify one "select" directive in > X86_64_ACPI_NUMA, (i.e. to turn on ACPI_NUMA). The configuration system > would then recursively walk up ACPI_NUMA's dependency hierarchy, turning > on what it needed. dont know my old patch still can be applied or not.. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/4/17 Andi was talking about to use ACPI numa aka SRAT table, but not use dsdt .... YH - 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/