Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:50:28 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.16-rc4-mm2 configs |
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"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:51:09 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > > > "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> a. why does SONY_ACPI default to m ? Other similar options > > > >are default n. > > > > > > > >Because I got heartily sick of losing the setting each time I > > > >went back to a mainline kernel and did `make oldconfig'. > > > > > > IIR the recommendation from Roman on these things was > > > to remove the default entirely. If you have a favorite > > > .config file with =m in it, then make oldconfig should > > > preserve that choice. > > > > > > > Nope. Once you remove the Kconfig entry entirely (ie: go back to a > > mainline kernel), `make oldconfig' will rub that config entry out > > completely. > > Yes. So you have it =m so that it will build in your > test builds, right? or some other reason? >
As I said, I got tired of losing the setting and not being able to control the backlight brightness. <insert anecdote about sitting outside at son's basketball game, having to recompile entire kernel by smell so I could read the screen>
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