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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.36, make oldconfig broken
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:40:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101022114019.60839ff2.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010221229.36996.gene.heskett@gmail.com>

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:29:36 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote:

[adding linux-kbuild]

> Greets all;
> 
> I have managed to get 2.6.36 to a semi-usable state, but I have major 
> breakage yet.
> 
> Question: what happens if I simply move my working 2.6.35.7 .config into the 
> 2.6.36 tree and build it from that?

I think that it runs 'make oldconfig' automatically for you.

> It can't be any worse than what the broken 'make oldconfig' did to it.  What 
> it output changed the disk drivers, graphic card drivers and just plain 
> threw away at least a hundred lines in the multimedia drivers section.
> 
> How do you suggest I recover from this if just building from the 2.6.35.7 
> .conf doesn't work?

Please send your 2.6.35.7 .config file so that we can generate & see the
changes.

---
~Randy
*** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-22 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-22 16:29 Re:2.6.36, make oldconfig broken Gene Heskett
2010-10-22 18:40 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2010-10-22 20:08   ` 2.6.36, " Gene Heskett
2010-10-22 21:20     ` Randy Dunlap
2010-10-23  0:54       ` Gene Heskett
2010-10-23  1:39         ` Ken Moffat
2010-10-23  2:43           ` Gene Heskett
2010-10-24  1:36         ` Randy Dunlap
2010-10-24  5:13           ` Gene Heskett
2010-10-25 14:23             ` Gene Heskett
2010-10-23  1:07       ` Ken Moffat
2010-10-23  2:18         ` Gene Heskett
2010-10-23 13:41     ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-23 16:26       ` Gene Heskett

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