From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Wienand Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 23:14:26 +0000 Subject: Re: GENERIC still failing? 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 On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:24:30PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Which *config tool are you using? make config/oldconfig/defconfig have > a bug which Roman hasn't got round to pushing upstream yet. > > This whitespace-damaged diff shows what needs to be fixed: Thanks but that patch didn't seem to make any difference; a make config seems to work as expected. I'm using menuconfig; the problems I see appear two fold. Firstly, I would have expected that when I selected 'Help' on, say, IA-64 system type (generic) ---> I would get the help text that says something like what is actually assocated with the IA64_GENERIC option. This seems to be an ordering decision in the ia64 Kconfig file. But, as that help text is associated with IA64_GENERIC, I would have expected as I when I was in the choice and selected help for (X) generic I would have got that big spiel "This selects the system type of your hardware. A "generic" kernel ..." If I use make config, when I select '1?' in the IA-64 system type choice, I receive the help text associated with it. But with make config, I can't see a way to get help for the choice overall. -i ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au