Re: why does x86 "make defconfig" build a single, lonely module?

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Sun May 13 2007 - 11:59:18 EST



On May 13 2007 11:22, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> not a big deal, but is there a reason that a "make defconfig" on my
>x86 system ends up selecting and building a single module?
>
> Building modules, stage 2.
> MODPOST 1 modules
> CC drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.mod.o
> LD [M] drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko
>
>is there something special about that module? just curious.

$ make defconfig;
$ grep =m .config;
CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m
$ grep -A2 SCSI_WAIT_SCAN drivers/scsi/Kconfig;
config SCSI_WAIT_SCAN
tristate
default m
$ grep SCSI_WAIT_SCAN arch/i386/Kconfig || echo "no result";
no result



Jan
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