Re: 2.6.16-rc4-mm2 configs

[Andrew Morton]

"Brown, Len" <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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