Messages in this thread |  | | From | Steven Cole <> | Date | Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:22:55 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_EISA note in Documentation/Configure.help |
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Andries Brouwer wrote: > >(i) I am a bit unhappy about adding configuration options >like this. It regularly happens that I want to compile some kernel >for some machine and have to grep the source and look at the config >files how to enable something. A machine with RTL-8139? Let me see,
I apologize: I did not specify that the patch for configure.help was for 2.4.0-test series only. Looking at 2.2.17, there is _no_ CONFIG_EISA.
>However, CONFIG_EISA is almost completely superfluous, is not >required at compile time, can easily be tested at run time, >in other words adding such an option is a very stupid thing to do.
Well, it got added sometime, and its there now for 2.4.0-testX. I am just trying to fill in the blanks so that the help buttons have something helpful to say.
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