Re: 2.6.16-rc4-mm2 configs

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

"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>