Re: make xmenuconfig is broken

[Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:24:36PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:35:45AM -0800, Jun Sun wrote:
> 
> > In addition, there are two SERIAL and SERIAL_CONSOLE related 
> > setting which should be in drivers/char/Config.in
> > instead of arch/mips/config-shared.in.
> > 
> > The following hack makes xmenuconfig work again, apparently breaking
> > decstation and IP22.  If nobody interested in those two machines
> > move the config, I will make an attempt to do so.
> 
> Why do you want to move the config? Is there any technical reason besides
> grouping the subarch specific character devices below the generic
> character devices instead of having a subarch specific menu ("DECstation
> character devices")?
>

My limited xconfig knowledge seems to tell me that moving to the generic
config file is the only way to make it work.  If you know a better way to fix
this, I will be happy to see it.

Jun