From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Staging: only build the tree if we really want to
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:31:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4915E91D.8080707@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081108183044.GA16504@suse.de>
Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 04:59:37PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
>>> -endif # STAGING
>>> +endif # !STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD
>> Which purpose is the STAGING kconfig variable serving after this?
>
> Sitting there and looking pretty :)
>
>> It controls the visibility of the menu, but switching it off won't
>> switch off the staging drivers if they were previously enabled, would
>> it?
>
> Try it and look in wonder :)
>
> If something affects the visibility of the menu for those config
> options, it controls if those options can be enabled or not.
Right. But if you had STAGING on, STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD off, and for
example ET131X on, then ET131X will still be on if you switch STAGING
off and save the configuration.
--
Stefan Richter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-08 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-08 5:45 [GIT PATCH] STAGING fixes for 2.6.28 Greg KH
2008-11-08 5:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] Staging: only build the tree if we really want to Greg KH
2008-11-08 15:59 ` Stefan Richter
2008-11-08 18:30 ` Greg KH
2008-11-08 19:31 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2008-11-11 6:15 ` Greg KH
2008-11-08 5:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] Staging: make usbip depend on CONFIG_NET Greg KH
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