ACPI and Kernel 2.6.9

When Linux Kernel 2.6.9 was released I saw that the ACPI patches I used to apply (ACPI and custom DSDT patch) are already incorporated into the kernel.
There were 2 new MACROs in the [kernel source]/driver/acpi/osl.c
1) ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT
2) ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_FILE

I made a PKGBUILD file for kernel compilation under Arch linux and compiled the kernel. But while setting the kenel parameters these options were not available. I compiled kernel 3 times with different options but these above mentioned options were not at all available.

I booted in Yoper and read the kernel code, Kconfig files and some scripts to find that these options will only be visible depending on some other options selection or non-selection. The culprit was STANDALONE macro which I had set under general driver options heading.

Afre de-selecting STANDALONE option, I was able to set
ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT=y
ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_FILE=my-dsdt.hex

good lesson on kernel configuration files. phew!

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