Re: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX Disappears! - Why?
Thomas H. George wrote:
I have learned that I cannot enable DNA unless my 2.6.8 kernel is
compiled with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX selected but the option to make
this selection has disappeared in make menuconfig. This happened once
before and, when I learned what was missing, I found a backup version of
.config which contained the option. I have saved that backup and so can
recover by recompliing the kernel but I don't understand why this
happens. In the backup version of .config there are 40 entries under
IDE chipset support/bugfixes. In my current .config there are only 9.
I have made changes in .config but nothing that I believe should have
unselected and removed CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX.
I can repair the damage but would be very interested in a better
understanding of why this occurred.
Tom George
It requires the option BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI to be enabled before it
appears in the menu.
Alternatively the make dependency system may still be in flux and
there is the unlikely possibility of a configuration dependency
error in make menuconfig.
Make xconfig (requires KDE dev packages) optionally shows
inaccessible kernel options as greyed out. I don't know if
that would be useful or not in your case.
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