Re: [PATCH for 2.6.22] [6/10] x86: Only make Macintosh drivers default on Macs

From: Olaf Hering
Date: Thu Jun 21 2007 - 14:54:51 EST


On Thu, Jun 21, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Will Schmidt wrote:
> >
> > I'll second that. The obvious gotcha is that on a G5, the windfarm
> > drivers don't get automatically selected, thus the fans run at full
> > speed, and my office becomes a windtunnel. :-)
>
> Since when has "default" been anything but "default". It doesn't mean that
> you can't override it. And if "make oldconfig" doesn't take the _old_
> setting into account over the new one, there's something wrong.

I said no to all new options (except IDE_PROC_FS and FIREWIRE), until
CONFIG_MACINTOSH_DRIVERS. If I say y, everything else was disabled.

mkdir ../$$$$
gzip -cd < /tmp/config.gz > ../$$$$/.config
make -kj3 O=../$$$$ ARCH=powerpc

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