From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: stable@kernel.org, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] uml: use DEFCONFIG_LIST to avoid reading host's config
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:37:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061005213754.GC6790@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11600785071661-git-send-email-blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:01:47PM +0200, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso wrote:
> From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
>
> This should make sure that, for UML, host's configuration files are not
> considered, which avoids various pains to the user. Our dependency are such that
> the obtained Kconfig will be valid and will lead to successful compilation -
> however they cannot prevent an user from disabling any boot device, and if an
> option is not set in the read .config (say /boot/config-XXX), with make
> menuconfig ARCH=um, it is not set. This always disables UBD and all console I/O
> channels, which leads to non-working UML kernels, so this bothers users -
> especially now, since it will happen on almost every machine
> (/boot/config-`uname -r` exists almost on every machine). It can be workarounded
> with make defconfig ARCH=um, but it is non-obvious and can be avoided, so please
> _do_ merge this patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Paolo - send this to Andrew as well so it doesn't get lost.
Jeff
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-05 20:01 [uml-devel] uml: use DEFCONFIG_LIST to avoid reading host's config Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2006-10-05 21:37 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2006-10-05 21:41 ` Blaisorblade
2006-10-10 6:20 ` [uml-devel] patch uml-use-defconfig_list-to-avoid-reading-host-s-config.patch queued to -stable tree gregkh
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