Re: i386 Kconfig options out of order

[Keith Owens]

Roman Zippel (on Tue, 23 May 2006 11:30:39 +0200 (CEST)) wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Tue, 23 May 2006, Keith Owens wrote:
>
>> Options NUMA and EFI in arch/i386/Kconfig depend on ACPI but they
>> appear before the ACPI option.  make oldconfig with no initial setting
>> for CONFIG_ACPI will prompt for these options, but if you then say No
>> to CONFIG_ACPI the options will silently be turned off.
>
>That's the normal behaviour.

Fair enough.  I was switching between configs with ACPI=y and ACPI=n,
every time I editted .config to remove the current ACPI setting and ran
oldconfig to insert the new setting, I got prompted for these extra
options.  Forward dependencies in configs, yuck.

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