Re: [PATCH 2/2] ioc4: Enable build on non-SN2

[Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>]

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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