Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301")

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:37:53AM -0700, Steven Cole wrote:
> I copied a working .config from an earlier kernel(-rc3), and ran make 
> oldconfig, answering most of the new questions 'n'.

Then you get into trouble with stuff under CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Answering
'n' turns off stock functionality. Though you really ought not have
CONFIG_EMBEDDED turned on anyway. I'm not sure how CONFIG_BASE_SMALL
is causing problems as the blockdev bit got dropped already. I'll poke
around..

Andrew, looks like turning on EMBEDDED causes a bunch of options to
spill onto the general setup menu in menuconfig because of the
placement of the bool piece:


Fix up bustedness in menuconfig

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

Index: mm1/init/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- mm1.orig/init/Kconfig	2005-02-23 13:32:38.000000000 -0800
+++ mm1/init/Kconfig	2005-02-23 14:27:18.699676896 -0800
@@ -274,11 +274,6 @@ config BASE_FULL
 	  Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
 	  kernel data structures.
 
-config BASE_SMALL
-	int
-	default 0 if BASE_FULL
-	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
-
 config FUTEX
 	bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
 	default y
@@ -360,6 +355,11 @@ config TINY_SHMEM
 	default !SHMEM
 	bool
 
+config BASE_SMALL
+	int
+	default 0 if BASE_FULL
+	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
+
 menu "Loadable module support"
 
 config MODULES

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