Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:37:37 +0000
From: Nick Warne <nick@ukfsn.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
       Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.28: How come some kernel options cannot be disabled for
 non-existent hardware?
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> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 07:25:42AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> 
> > It still shows up as enabled and it is in dmesg shown above.  How come 
> > some kernel options are enabled and cannot (easily?) be disabled for 
> > hardware that does not exist in my machine?
> 
> It's enabled by the ATA_ACPI support so libata can handle ACPI-based 
> drive hotswaps. You can check these by looking at the help for an option 
> in make menuconfig. That'll tell you what's selecting an option.

I have been battling this sort of thing lately.  In fact, the dock
option seems to get set with '& experimental'.  I got rid of it, but
that then buggered up the selection of k8temp which needs experimental.

Nick
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