Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Oct 2012 11:09:30 +0200 | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_EXPERT is a booby trap |
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Tim Shepard writes: > This weekend I finally figured out why the keyboard in my MacBook Pro > stopped working between 3.4 and 3.5. > > When I turned on CONFIG_EXPERT it turned off CONFIG_HID_APPLE. There > was no warning that selecting "Configure standard kernel features" will > invisibly turn off needed things elsewhere in the configuration tree. > > Something needs to be fixed, but it's not obvious that any simple change > will work without causing other troubles.
"diff" the before and after .config files. That's alerted me to unexpected changes (not just "where did CONFIG_${foo} go?" but also "wtf is CONFIG_${bar} doing there?") on numerous occasions.
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