Re: menuconfig issue (checklist) in 2.6.20.7 & 2.6.21-rc7 ?

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

> > > [sukhoi@Akula2 linux-2.6.20.7]$ sudo make menuconfig
> > >   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o
> > > In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24:
> > > scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file
> > > or directory
> > 
> > I guess you need to install the curses development package.  Here it's called
> > ncurses-devel.
check-lxdialog.sh should be extended to catch this case.
We can link but .h file is not present.
Will take a look at it later.

> There are general funnies in the menuconfig world (my preference) here.
> For instance, I recently had reason to change/test different default IO
> schedulers, and found that no matter what I did, I couldn't select a
> default IO scheduler any more, though I used to be able to do so.
Tried it now with latest -git from Linus and here it works.
Notice that you need to make the scheduler a built-in <*>
before you can select it as default.
A scheduler selected as a module <M> cannot be made default.

	Sam
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