Make menuconfig broken

Samuel Flory
2003-07-22T00:33:14Z

Samuel Flory wrote:

> Charles Lepple wrote:
>
>>
>> Note to defconfig maintainers: can these options be enabled by
>> default on
>> i386 (like they were in 2.4)?
>>
>> Things that you might want to enable:
>>
>> CONFIG_ISA=y
>>
>> CONFIG_SERIO=y
>> CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
>> CONFIG_INPUT_AT_KEYBOARD=y
>>
>> CONFIG_VT=y
>> CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
>> CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
>>
> Actual the i386 defconfig does this:
> [root@grendel linux-2.6.0-test1]# grep -e VT -e HW_CONSOLE -e SERIO
> -e INPUT_AT_KEYBOARD arch/i386/defconfig
> CONFIG_SERIO=y
> CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
> # CONFIG_SERIO_SERPORT is not set
> # CONFIG_SERIO_CT82C710 is not set
> # CONFIG_SERIO_PARKBD is not set
> CONFIG_VT=y
> CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
> [root@grendel linux-2.6.0-test1]#
>
>
> However a "make oldconfig" on a 2.4 .config doesn't pick this up. In
> fact it appears to be impossible to select CONFIG_VT
> CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE in make menuconfig.
>

Try this in 2.6.0-test1:
rm .config
make mrproper
make menuconfig

There is no option for CONFIG_VT, and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE under
character devices in "make menuconfig.

This works:
rm .config
make mrproper
cp arch/i386/defconfig .config
make menuconfig

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