"Randy.Dunlap" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:51:09 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > "Brown, Len" <[email protected]> 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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