From: Steven Cole <scole@lanl.gov>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_EISA note in Documentation/Configure.help
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:22:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00111414225502.03227@spc.esa.lanl.gov> (raw)
Andries Brouwer wrote:
>
>(i) I am a bit unhappy about adding configuration options
>like this. It regularly happens that I want to compile some kernel
>for some machine and have to grep the source and look at the config
>files how to enable something. A machine with RTL-8139? Let me see,
I apologize: I did not specify that the patch for configure.help was for
2.4.0-test series only. Looking at 2.2.17, there is _no_ CONFIG_EISA.
>However, CONFIG_EISA is almost completely superfluous, is not
>required at compile time, can easily be tested at run time,
>in other words adding such an option is a very stupid thing to do.
Well, it got added sometime, and its there now for 2.4.0-testX. I am just
trying to fill in the blanks so that the help buttons have something helpful
to say.
Steven
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-14 21:22 Steven Cole [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-17 23:47 Andries.Brouwer
2000-11-14 23:37 Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2000-11-14 20:48 Steven Cole
2000-11-14 21:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-14 0:07 Steven Cole
2000-11-14 19:59 ` Andries Brouwer
2000-11-14 20:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-14 21:00 ` Andries Brouwer
[not found] ` <3A127070.7DEE2527@yahoo.com>
2000-11-17 22:01 ` Andries Brouwer
2000-11-17 23:24 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-18 11:26 ` Christer Weinigel
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