Re: linux-next: sysctl tree build failure

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Thu Nov 12 2009 - 07:10:49 EST


Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Eric,
>
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:11:34 -0800 ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>>
>> Any clue how all_noconfig happened to have CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL set?
>
> CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL defaults to y and only depends on
> CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL which also defaults to y and depends on CONFIG_PROC_FS
> which also defaults to y. All three are only selectable if
> CONFIG_EMBEDDED is y (which it obviously isn't).

Ah so. An interesting twist of fate. Thank you for satisfying my
curiosity.

Eric
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