From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932082Ab0JWNlL (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:41:11 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:52947 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756951Ab0JWNlJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:41:09 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:41:02 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Gene Heskett Cc: Randy Dunlap , LKML , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.36, make oldconfig broken Message-ID: <20101023134102.GA7893@elte.hu> References: <201010221229.36996.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <20101022114019.60839ff2.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <201010221608.36754.gene.heskett@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201010221608.36754.gene.heskett@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hi Gene, * Gene Heskett wrote: > > Please send your 2.6.35.7 .config file so that we can generate & see the > > changes. > > Attached Randy, & many thanks. > > Just for S&G I overwrote the generated .config in the 2.6.36 tree with these > files, and ran a make xconfig, which bitched about line 3109, and which I don't > recall ever playing with, "RAR_REGISTER" IIRC, so I saved it without any other > changes and built/installed & booted from that now. In case it's useful: i take old .config's and put them into new kernels all the time, and i very much depend on configured drivers and options not going away suddenly. I know lots of other developers depend on that as well. In the hundreds or so cases i've done this manually in the past few years i only remember less than 5 cases where this didnt work in an 'as expected' way. So this should really work for you. If it doesnt when going from 2.6.35 to 2.6.36 then that's very likely a bug somewhere which we want to fix ... Thanks, Ingo