Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1

Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-30T21:09:35Z

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:15:10PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:17:46 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:01:30 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
> > > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:50:30 -0400
> > > Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> >
> > > > Odd - just for grins, I checked what 'make oldconfig' did when handed a .config
> > > > from 22-rc4-mm2, and it behaved just fine, much to my surprise.
> > >
> > > That's probably because your old config file was relatively recent, and
> > > had things like CONFIG_BLK_DEV=y in it.
> >
> > Ahh... <light bulb goes on> Yeah, it gets a 'make oldconfig' for pretty
> > much every single -mm, I suck at any regression testing other than "since
> > the last -mm".
> >
>
> All my .configs have mouldered since I lost the ability to have .config be
> a symlink to a revision-controlled file (used to carry a custom patch for
> this, but it died).
>
> I continue to believe that kbuild's lets-trash-your-symlink behaviour is
> obnoxious, but I was unable to persuade anyone else of this.

I thought we fixed that long time ago?!?!
I am heading for vacation for 20 days without Internet (real vacation :-))
and have properly forget most about Linux and everything about this
issue when I return.
In the unlikely event that I recall it I will take a look when I'm back.

By the way - kbuild.git is lacking behind on patches.
I have several queded from other peopel and have more in the works myself.
This will not be looked into until I'm back.

Sam