Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:06:30 -0500 (CDT) | From | Brent Casavant <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] ioc4: Enable build on non-SN2 |
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> Mostly curious: did you observe that this is required? > >> I always thought that Roman said that unknown config variables > >> caused a rescan by kconfig. IOW, I thought that it wouldn't > >> be observable by a user. Just wondering.. > > > >If it causes a rescan (I don't rightly know) it must have changed. > >I caught a bit of flak for an incorrectly ordered config statement > >once before, but that was a few years ago. > > I am sure it causes a rescan, because activating > CONFIG_NETFILTER for example makes some options available that are > defined before NETFILTER, such as IP_ROUTE_FWMARK, IP_VS, > NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CONNMARK and NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_NOTRACK, and > activating NETFILTER _will_ cause a rescan with `make oldconfig` - I > just tried. (Things are a little different with menuconfig/xconfig and > such of course)
In my case I think it was the menuconfig or xconfig that someone complained about (I don't rightly remember which one). In any case, for the patch at hand, I could find no particular reason that the drivers/misc Kconfig line couldn't be moved up to preserve peace and harmony.
Brent
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