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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:29:52 -0500 (CDT)
From: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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        lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch] tsc-disable_A5
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On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:04:18PM -0700, john stultz wrote:
> 
>  > .config that looked like:
>  > 
>  > CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
>  > ...
>  > # CONFIG_X86_TSC is not set
>  > So I assumed CONFIG_X86_TSC would still hold. Am I wrong, or is there
>  > another way to do this?
> 
> Ugh, I hadn't realised the .config generation was so primitive.
> That's quite unfortunate. That needs fixing at some point.

I suppose you could it rewrite like

...
CONFIG_X86_WANT_TSC=y (or whatever)
...

if [ some_condition ]; then
  define_bool CONFIG_X86_TSC n
else
  define_bool CONFIG_X86_TSC $CONFIG_X86_WANT_TSC
fi

Not exactly elegant, but it should work ;)

--Kai


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