Re: linux-2.4.6-pre6: numerous dep_{bool,tristate} $CONFIG_ARCH_xxx bugs

Russell King
2001-06-30T15:01:22Z

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 07:57:10AM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> So, I guess something like Keith Owens's patch would be the
> way to go, with some additional definitions (CONFIG_AGP, CONFIG_PCI,
> CONFIG_ISA, CONFIG_EISA, CONFIG_PCMCIA, and possibly others). I am
> not sure which other conditionals might also be incorrectly ignored by
> some instances of dep_xxx. Below, I have included a list of the 52
> CONFIG_* variables that are used as arguments to dep_xxx in 2.4.6-pre6
> and appear in arch/*/config.in.

I have confirmed that Keith Owens patch doesn't work with xconfig - you
can't select any option which has been define_bool'd to 'n'.

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