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>> >> a. why does SONY_ACPI default to m ? Other similar options >> >are default n. >> > >> >Because I got heartily sick of losing the setting each time I >> >went back to a mainline kernel and did `make oldconfig'. >> >> IIR the recommendation from Roman on these things was >> to remove the default entirely. If you have a favorite >> .config file with =m in it, then make oldconfig should >> preserve that choice. >> > >Nope. Once you remove the Kconfig entry entirely (ie: go back to a >mainline kernel), `make oldconfig' will rub that config entry out >completely. You're deleting the .config entirely and running "make oldconfig" from scratch? Hmmm, I always keep my sane .config around and run "make oldconfig" on top of it in the context of the new kernel. That preserves my non-default selections. -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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