Subject: Re: linux-next: sysctl tree build failure

From: [email-masked] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:10:38 -0800

Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi Eric,
>
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:11:34 -0800 [email-masked] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>>
>> Any clue how all_noconfig happened to have CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL set?
>
> CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL defaults to y and only depends on
> CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL which also defaults to y and depends on CONFIG_PROC_FS
> which also defaults to y.  All three are only selectable if
> CONFIG_EMBEDDED is y (which it obviously isn't).

Ah so.  An interesting twist of fate.  Thank you for satisfying my
curiosity.

Eric