Re: 2.6.36, make oldconfig broken

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:29:36 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote:

[adding linux-kbuild]

> Greets all;
> 
> I have managed to get 2.6.36 to a semi-usable state, but I have major 
> breakage yet.
> 
> Question: what happens if I simply move my working 2.6.35.7 .config into the 
> 2.6.36 tree and build it from that?

I think that it runs 'make oldconfig' automatically for you.

> It can't be any worse than what the broken 'make oldconfig' did to it.  What 
> it output changed the disk drivers, graphic card drivers and just plain 
> threw away at least a hundred lines in the multimedia drivers section.
> 
> How do you suggest I recover from this if just building from the 2.6.35.7 
> .conf doesn't work?

Please send your 2.6.35.7 .config file so that we can generate & see the
changes.

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~Randy
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