Re: Patch: 2.1.81: Index Configure.help(using mmap and C)

Adam Heath (adam@brainiac.egr.msu.edu)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:09:37 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Adam Heath wrote:

> > I also noticed two snall problems which are also present in the stock
> > kernel (and may be beyond the scope of your patch):
> >
> > --with ARCH = i386, help is available for CONFIG_M386 and the other CPUs,
> > but "make config" doesn't show a question mark as an option, which
> > elsewhere indicates that help is available.
>
> This is a bug in make config. I did a grep for "choice" in all
> config.in's, and noticed that it is a little used option. The
> arch/*/config.in's used, along with ftape. I ran config, and had the same
> problem with ftape along with CONFIG_M386.

Included with my patch(when it comes out) is the fix.

Adam.