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From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Subject: Re: RomFS: enless loop during make oldconfig from 2.6.24 -> 2.6.31-rc4 (parisc)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:30:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907311730.08804.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17615.1249045054@redhat.com>

Thanks for the quick response David.

On Friday 31 July 2009, David Howells wrote:
> Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> > Near the end of the 'make oldconfig' I got into an endless loop. I
> > never even got a chance to make a choice, it just continued looping
> > on the display.
>
> It works fine for me, using a GNUmakefile with:
>
> 	CROSS_COMPILE	:= hppa-linux-
> 	ARCH		:= parisc
>
> set.  I used whatever was latest from Linus's tree.  I did just hold
> enter down to select all the defaults.

I've tried again too. With all defaults I cannot reproduce it either.
But if I answer the questions below as follows, I do get the loop again:

Advanced netfilter configuration: N
Wireless: N
* sound drivers: N (* = "PCI","USB" and one or two others)
Default ext3 to "data=ordered": Y

Cheers,
FJP

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-31 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-31 10:27 RomFS: enless loop during make oldconfig from 2.6.24 -> 2.6.31-rc4 (parisc) Frans Pop
2009-07-31 12:04 ` David Howells
2009-07-31 12:28   ` Frans Pop
2009-07-31 12:37     ` David Howells
2009-07-31 12:57 ` David Howells
2009-07-31 15:30   ` Frans Pop [this message]
2009-07-31 16:46     ` David Howells
2009-07-31 17:16       ` Frans Pop

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