From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 12:13:47 +0000 Subject: Re: FYI, ZX1 config problem in 2.4.23/2.4.24 Message-Id: <20040107121347.GA17182@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> List-Id: References: <200401061732.22576.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200401061732.22576.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:32:22PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > When I changed the "HP-zx1" kernel config choice to just "HP", > I seem to have exposed an oddity in the way menuconfig works. > The menu contains this: > > "generic CONFIG_IA64_GENERIC \ > DIG-compliant CONFIG_IA64_DIG \ > HP-simulator CONFIG_IA64_HP_SIM \ > HP CONFIG_IA64_HP_ZX1 \ > SGI-SN2 CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN2" generic > > and apparently when the user selects "HP", menuconfig turns on > the *simulator* symbol (CONFIG_IA64_HP_SIM) instead of the HP_ZX1 > symbol. I think this looks like a menuconfig bug, but the easiest > way around it is probably to use a patch like this: I think another way to do it would be to move HP_ZX1 above HP_SIM. But aesthetically, we should probably put the simulator option down at the bottom anyway. -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain