From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bjorn Helgaas Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 22:32:09 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kconfig cleanup, part 1 Message-Id: <200401161532.09601.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> List-Id: References: <200401161136.37066.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200401161136.37066.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 Friday 16 January 2004 2:39 pm, Peter Chubb wrote: > config IA64_HP_ZX1 > - bool "HP-zx1" > + bool "HP" > > Please don't do this. You'll get people selecting it for the HP > I2000 and RX4610, which are *not* based on the ZX1 chipset, even > though they're made by HP. Yes, you're right. And the result is particularly ugly -- booting an IA64_HP_ZX1 kernel on an i2000 gives no output at all (at least on a serial console). We do need something more general than HP-zx1, though. It already supports sx1000 as well. I'll try to think of something.