make oldconfig forces HWMON to be inbuilt

[Daniel Baluta]

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Ani Sinha <ani at arista.com> wrote:
> Hi guys :
>
> I am seeing this weird issue where even though my original kernel
> configuration tries to build HWMON as a module, when I do 'make
> oldconfig', it forces HWMON to be built into the kernel. Is there
> anyway I can find what configuration is forcing this change?
> CONFIG_HWMEM is a tristate symbol.

Did you mean CONFIG_HWMON?

Run make menuconfig and use / CONFIG_HWMON to find its
place in config hierarchy. It should be under "Device Drivers" ->
Hardware Monitoring Support.

Then press "?" to find more info about CONFIG_HWMON symbol.
Look for "Selected by".

thanks,
Daniel.