From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Owens Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 05:51:04 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] [trivial] Request for merging of two sets of redundant SGI IA64Configure.help texts Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Steven Cole wrote: >Could one of you help resolve the following very trivial problem. In >2.4.20-pre5 Documentation/Configure.help, there exists two >Configure.help entries for CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN_SIM and >CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN_DEBUG. > >The configurators will of course only display the first of the two. >Would someone please indicate which of the texts is the more accurate or >combine them as you see fit. You can send me the results or make up a >patch yourself. > >If this is a moot point, deleting the second text would be the default >thing to do. The first set is wrong. There is also an error in ia64/config.in for one of these variables. Patch against 2.4.19. --- Documentation/Configure.help.orig Wed Sep 11 15:44:36 2002 +++ Documentation/Configure.help Wed Sep 11 15:45:24 2002 @@ -24409,16 +24409,6 @@ If you don't know what to do, choose "generic". -CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN_SIM - Build a kernel that runs on both the SGI simulator AND on hardware. - There is a very slight performance penalty on hardware for including this - option. - -CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN_DEBUG - This enables addition debug code that helps isolate - platform/kernel bugs. There is a small but measurable performance - degradation when this option is enabled. - # Choice: pagesize Kernel page size CONFIG_IA64_PAGE_SIZE_4KB --- arch/ia64/config.in.orig Wed Sep 11 15:45:29 2002 +++ arch/ia64/config.in Wed Sep 11 15:49:01 2002 @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ if [ "$CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN1" = "y" ] || [ "$CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN2" = "y" ]; then define_bool CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN y - bool ' Enable extra debugging code' CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN_DEBUG n + bool ' Enable extra debugging code' CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN_DEBUG bool ' Enable SGI Medusa Simulator Support' CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN_SIM bool ' Enable autotest (llsc). Option to run cache test instead of booting' \ CONFIG_IA64_SGI_AUTOTEST n