Re: 2.6.36, make oldconfig broken

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

hi Gene,

* Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Please send your 2.6.35.7 .config file so that we can generate & see the 
> > changes.
> 
> Attached Randy, & many thanks.
> 
> Just for S&G I overwrote the generated .config in the 2.6.36 tree with these 
> files, and ran a make xconfig, which bitched about line 3109, and which I don't 
> recall ever playing with, "RAR_REGISTER" IIRC, so I saved it without any other 
> changes and built/installed & booted from that now.

In case it's useful: i take old .config's and put them into new kernels all the 
time, and i very much depend on configured drivers and options not going away 
suddenly. I know lots of other developers depend on that as well.

In the hundreds or so cases i've done this manually in the past few years i only 
remember less than 5 cases where this didnt work in an 'as expected' way.

So this should really work for you. If it doesnt when going from 2.6.35 to 2.6.36 
then that's very likely a bug somewhere which we want to fix ...

Thanks,

	Ingo