Re: 2.6.16-rc4-mm2 configs

[Andrew Morton]

"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 
> a.  why does SONY_ACPI default to m ?  Other similar options are default n.

Because I got heartily sick of losing the setting each time I went back to
a mainline kernel and did `make oldconfig'.

> b.  config LSF
> 	bool "Support for Large Single Files"
> 	depends on X86 || (MIPS && 32BIT) || PPC32 || ARCH_S390_31 || SUPERH || UML
> 	default n
> 	help
> 	  When CONFIG_LBD is disabled, say Y here if you want to
> 	  handle large file(bigger than 2TB), otherwise say N.
> 	  When CONFIG_LBD is enabled, Y is set automatically.
> 
> This config option appears to be unimplemented and the Help text is
> incorrect:  it is not set to Y automatically when CONFIG_LBD is enabled.
> Where did this come from?

2tb-files-*.patch.

That config option needs to go away, but the developer didn't seem to agree
with or appreciate that at the time.

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