Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> While working on an defconfig (arm/mx27) I noticed that just updating
> it results in removing CONFIG_EEPROM_AT24=y.  The reason is that
> since commit
>
>        v2.6.36-5965-g5f2365d8 (misc devices: do not enable by default)
>
> MISC_DEVICES isn't enabled anymore by default.  So all defconfigs that
> have CONFIG_SOME_SYMBOL=y (or =m) (with SOME_SYMBOL depending on
> MISC_DEVICES) but not CONFIG_MISC_DEVICES=y suffer from the same
> problem.
Reported-by: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>