Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL and kernel profiling support | Date | Wed, 08 May 1996 09:50:47 +0100 | From | Jim Partan <> |
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Hi, I was thinking that perhaps the option to enable kernel profiling support in "make config/menuconfig/xconfig" should only show up if CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is set to "y". I added a little to the end of arch/i386/config.in, but it doesn't work for xconfig (though it appears to work for config and menuconfig). I wanted the "Kernel hacking" button in xconfig to come up grey if CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL isn't set, just as the SCSI low-level drivers button comes up grey if CONFIG_SCSI isn't set, but I couldn't even get xconfig to start up (it says: ``can't read "CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL": no such variable'').
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong, please? (It's obvious that I'm a complete newbie at this -- this is probably incredibly simple.) Also, please feel free to tell me if this is a bad idea or if it should be done differently.
Thanks very much, Jim jp201@cam.ac.uk
Here's the relevant part of config.in:
if [ "$CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL" = "y" ]; then mainmenu_option next_comment comment 'Kernel hacking' #bool 'Debug kmalloc/kfree' CONFIG_DEBUG_MALLOC bool 'Kernel profiling support' CONFIG_PROFILE if [ "$CONFIG_PROFILE" = "y" ]; then int ' Profile shift count' CONFIG_PROFILE_SHIFT 2 fi endmenu fi
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