Re: [patch] i386 "General Options" - begone [take 2]

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:20:03 +0200


On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 01:59:11PM -0700, Grover, Andrew wrote:

> This is a tough one because ACPI *is* power management but it is also
> configuration. It is equivalent to such things as MPS table parsing, $PIR
> parsing, PNPBIOS, as well as APM. The first two don't have CONFIG_ options
> at the moment but they should at some point.
> The only thing I can think of is a "Platform interface options" menu and
> just throw all of the above in that. Any other ideas?

You seem to be halfway down the road of splitting ACPI in two already,
with the introduction of CONFIG_ACPI_HT_ONLY recently. Why not bundle
such options under a CONFIG_ACPI_INITIALISATION or the likes, and
put the rest under the power management menu as Brad suggested ?

Dave.

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/