From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271740AbTGRM3T (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:29:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271743AbTGRM3S (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:29:18 -0400 Received: from tomts24-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.187]:31207 "EHLO tomts24-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271740AbTGRM3P (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:29:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:42:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: confusing ACPI, APM menu dependencies Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org in "make xconfig" for 2.6.0-test1-ac2, the menu entries for power management are a little confusing. the top-level entry for "Power management options (ACPI, APM)" seems to suggest that you have to at least select this top-level entry before you can be more specific. yet, even without selecting this, you can still select ACPI. this is definitely a bit confusing given the label and help screens for these menu entries. can someone clarify this? or perhaps reword the menu entries to make it more obvious what the choices and dependencies are. rday