From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:52947 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756951Ab0JWNlJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:41:09 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:41:02 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: 2.6.36, make oldconfig broken Message-ID: <20101023134102.GA7893@elte.hu> References: <201010221229.36996.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <20101022114019.60839ff2.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <201010221608.36754.gene.heskett@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201010221608.36754.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Gene Heskett Cc: Randy Dunlap , LKML , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org hi Gene, * Gene Heskett 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