From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:30:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:50426 "EHLO orion.mvista.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:30:33 +0100 Received: (from jsun@localhost) by orion.mvista.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g9TLUMF22618; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:30:22 -0800 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:30:21 -0800 From: Jun Sun To: Karsten Merker , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: jsun@mvista.com Subject: Re: make xmenuconfig is broken Message-ID: <20021029133021.D18288@mvista.com> References: <20021029103545.K24266@mvista.com> <20021029192436.GA1344@excalibur.cologne.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021029192436.GA1344@excalibur.cologne.de>; from karsten@excalibur.cologne.de on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:24:36PM +0100 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 533 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: jsun@mvista.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:24:36PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:35:45AM -0800, Jun Sun wrote: > > > In addition, there are two SERIAL and SERIAL_CONSOLE related > > setting which should be in drivers/char/Config.in > > instead of arch/mips/config-shared.in. > > > > The following hack makes xmenuconfig work again, apparently breaking > > decstation and IP22. If nobody interested in those two machines > > move the config, I will make an attempt to do so. > > Why do you want to move the config? Is there any technical reason besides > grouping the subarch specific character devices below the generic > character devices instead of having a subarch specific menu ("DECstation > character devices")? > My limited xconfig knowledge seems to tell me that moving to the generic config file is the only way to make it work. If you know a better way to fix this, I will be happy to see it. Jun