From: Fabio Coatti <cova@ferrara.linux.it>
Organization: FerraraLUG
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: stuck with 2.6.23.14 on x86_64
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:46:12 +0100
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Alle mercoled? 13 febbraio 2008, Randy Dunlap ha scritto:

> > >
> > > You're not supposed to have CONFIG_PM unset and CONFIG_ACPI set at the
> > > same time.  The oldconfig generation must have gone wrong at one point.
> >
> > Maybe it's not supposed to have this situation, but maybe you should tell
> > this to the kernel itself :)
> >
> > # zcat /proc/config.gz | egrep "PM|ACPI"
> > CONFIG_X86_64_ACPI_NUMA=y
> > # CONFIG_PM is not set
> > CONFIG_ACPI=y
> > # CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS is not set
> >
> > # uname -rv
> > 2.6.23.12 #3 SMP Tue Feb 12 11:22:16 CET 2008
> >
> > And you can easily get this situation from menuconfig: just fire up make
> > menuconfig without any .config, go to power management options and turn
> > off "Power Management support". exit and look at .config:
> >
> > # CONFIG_PM is not set
> > CONFIG_SUSPEND_SMP_POSSIBLE=y
> > CONFIG_HIBERNATION_SMP_POSSIBLE=y
> > CONFIG_ACPI=y
> >
> > Maybe if this is not supposed to be the right situation, some
> > dependencies are not respected... (tested on .16)
>
> Yes, this is yet another select problem.  X86_64_NUMA_ACPI
> selects ACPI, even though PM is not enabled.  :(
>
> So you have a manual fix:  just enable CONFIG_PM.
>
> Is this specific config important to you?  I.e., do you want/need
> NUMA support?  If so, you'll just need to continue enabling CONFIG_PM.

Well, I suppose that I need to activate NUMA, as I'm running a dual 
processor/dual core AMD 2216HE box... so I will go for CONFIG_PM option 
enabled, I suppose :)


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