RE: 2.6.16-rc4-mm2 configs

From: Brown, Len
Date: Mon Feb 27 2006 - 02:27:18 EST



>> >> 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'.
>>
>> IIR the recommendation from Roman on these things was
>> to remove the default entirely. If you have a favorite
>> .config file with =m in it, then make oldconfig should
>> preserve that choice.
>>
>
>Nope. Once you remove the Kconfig entry entirely (ie: go back to a
>mainline kernel), `make oldconfig' will rub that config entry out
>completely.

You're deleting the .config entirely and running "make oldconfig"
from scratch?

Hmmm, I always keep my sane .config around and run "make oldconfig"
on top of it in the context of the new kernel. That preserves
my non-default selections.

-Len
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