Re: -mm: strange places for the PERFCTR option

From: Mikael Pettersson
Date: Thu Jul 21 2005 - 09:29:22 EST


Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On i386, the PERFCTR option is currently available under:
>
> Power management options (ACPI, APM)
> APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS Support
>
>
> On x86_64, the PERFCTR option is currently available under:
>
> Executable file formats / Emulation
>
>
> On ppc, the PERFCTR option is currently available under:
>
> Processor
>
>
> On ppc64, the PERFCTR option is currently available under:
>
> Platform support
>
>
> The ppc and ppc64 places seem to be logical, but the places where it's
> available on i386 and x86_64 are strange.

The strange placement on i386 and x86_64 is probably due to patch
making mistakes. Once I saw patch misapply a Kconfig hunk for
x86_64 by about 900 lines...

Feel free to propose a cleanup patch.

/Mikael
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