From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dennis Borgmann Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:30:44 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD deactivated on automatic build In-Reply-To: <20100930194624.62fdea0e@surf> References: <4CA47342.7020405@googlemail.com> <20100930194624.62fdea0e@surf> Message-ID: <4CA58E24.9050104@googlemail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Thomas, thank you! Thomas Petazzoni schrieb: > Hello Dennis, > > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:23:46 +0200 > Dennis Borgmann wrote: > > >> First of all - thank you for the work done for this project. It is >> awesome and I really like it. Straightforward and quick to use. >> >> I think, I found a bug. If you download buildroot and start >> configuring your project with "make menuconfig" and after that >> configure the kernel with "make linux26-menuconfig", everything seems >> to be ok. I did give it a custom kernel-config named >> "/tmp/config-2.6.34". >> >> After running "make", everything seems to be ok, but the resulting >> kernel does not contain the option "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD". I need to >> manually do a "make linux26-menuconfig" again and rebuild the kernel >> for the resulting kernel to contain this option. >> >> This was a really silly thing to find, took me around one week, >> because you wouldn't think of such a mistake. Could it be, that this >> is a bug? I am using buildroot-2010.08. >> > > Yes, it was a bug. When "initramfs" isn't used as the target filesystem > format, we forcefully disabled the CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD option. This > has been fixed post-2010.08, by the following commit: > > http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=ee3f319249e146d92b093ad8c45a3a908d44236f > > So you can either apply this patch on top of 2010.08, or use the latest > Buildroot git. We unfortunately do not maintain "stabilized" versions > of Buildroot (such as 2010.08.x) for the moment. > > Regards, > > Thomas >