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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] make xconfig broken in ia64-020622
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 21:24:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701905766@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701905745@msgid-missing>

>>>>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:05:19 -0600, Khalid Aziz <khalid@fc.hp.com> said:

  Khalid> Absolutely. xconfig parser has major problems with the
  Khalid> following patch to arch/ia64/config.in in 020622:

  Khalid> +else # ! HP_SIM
  Khalid> +mainmenu_option next_comment
  Khalid> +comment 'Block devices'
  Khalid> +tristate 'Loopback device support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP
  Khalid> +dep_tristate 'Network block device support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD
  Khalid> $CONFIG_NET
  Khalid> +
  Khalid> +tristate 'RAM disk support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM
  Khalid> +if [ "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM" = "m" ]; then
  Khalid> +   int '  Default RAM disk size' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE 4096
  Khalid> +fi
  Khalid> +endmenu

  Khalid> xconfig parser looks at this definition of 'Block devices'
  Khalid> and the one in drivers/block/Config.in and considers them
  Khalid> duplicates inspite of the conditional. With this patch, you
  Khalid> can not configure loopback device or RAM disk unless you are
  Khalid> configuring for HP Simulator.

  Khalid> Without the patch I sent, "make xconfig" won't even
  Khalid> start. So this patch only makes xconfig atleast partially
  Khalid> usable.

If nobody wants to fix this problem, perhaps what we should do is
change "make xconfig" so it just prints a message telling the user to
do "make menuconfig" instead.  Other suggestions (and particular patches)
are welcome...

	--david


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-11 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-09 15:53 [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] make xconfig broken in ia64-020622 Khalid Aziz
2002-07-10 16:06 ` Xavier Bru
2002-07-10 17:05 ` Khalid Aziz
2002-07-11 21:24 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2002-07-12 20:46 ` Khalid Aziz
2002-07-19  6:54 ` Keith Owens

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