Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:37:37 +0000 | From | Nick Warne <> | 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.
I have been battling this sort of thing lately. In fact, the dock option seems to get set with '& experimental'. I got rid of it, but that then buggered up the selection of k8temp which needs experimental.
Nick -- Free Software Foundation Associate Member 5508 http://linicks.net/
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