Re: [2.4.22-pre1] menuconfig oddity

Jan-Hinnerk Reichert (jan-hinnerk_reichert@hamburg.de)
Sun, 29 Jun 2003 12:37:23 +0200


On Thursday 26 June 2003 19:50, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:27:57PM +0200, Jan-Hinnerk Reichert wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > first I want to say that I could compile 2.4.22-pre1 without problems and
> > everything works fine for 4 hours on a desktop machine with little load.
> >
> > However, I had a small problem during my installation:
> >
> > After the first compilation and reboot, I started menuconfig again and
> > all subentries of "ACPI support" were gone. I took a brief look at the
> > .config, but there were at least some entries.
> >
> > So I ignored this, changed my config via menuconfig, recompiled and
> > rebooted and ACPI was gone ;-(
> >
> > After copying my old config and "make oldconfig", everything was back to
> > normal. Unfortunately i wasn't able to reproduce this error.
> >
> > I just wanted to let you know...
>
> Did you accidentially enable "CPU Enumeration Only" in the
> "ACPI support" menu?

I can't say for sure, but the "CPU Enumeration Only" entry was also gone when
I noticed the error.
There was only the "ACPI support" entry left in the "ACPI support" menu.

> If this isn't the problem, please send your .config.

Unfortunately, I haven't saved the non-working .config.

Which config should I sent? The old 2.4.20-SuSE, the one after "make
oldconfig"?

Jan-Hinnerk

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