Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:14:47 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.28: How come some kernel options cannot be disabled for non-existent hardware? |
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 07:25:42AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> It still shows up as enabled and it is in dmesg shown above. How come > some kernel options are enabled and cannot (easily?) be disabled for > hardware that does not exist in my machine?
It's enabled by the ATA_ACPI support so libata can handle ACPI-based drive hotswaps. You can check these by looking at the help for an option in make menuconfig. That'll tell you what's selecting an option.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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