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From: Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>
To: Daniel.A.Christian@NASA.gov
Cc: John Appleby <john@dnsworld.co.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.21-rc7 SMP module unresolved symbols
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 12:36:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EDE4A38.3050405@rackable.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200306041106.01316.Daniel.A.Christian@NASA.gov>

Dan Christian wrote:

>
>"make mrproper" fixes it.
>
>For the record, I think this stinks!
>
>"make mrproper" should  be an expert only utility because it does blow 
>away valuable configuration information (a painfull lesson that can 
>only be learned "the hard way", since the README neglicts to mention 
>this).  For that matter, the README makes it look like creating a 
>config from scratch (all 1500+ options) is no big deal!
>  
>

  Most developers have a std config file that they simply copy over, and 
run "make oldconfig".  This is why menuconfig, and xconfig get broken 
every few patches.

-- 
There is no such thing as obsolete hardware.
Merely hardware that other people don't want.
(The Second Rule of Hardware Acquisition)
Sam Flory  <sflory@rackable.com>



  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-04 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <434747C01D5AC443809D5FC5405011314BEC@bobcat.unickz.com>
2003-06-04 18:06 ` 2.4.21-rc7 SMP module unresolved symbols Dan Christian
2003-06-04 19:36   ` Samuel Flory [this message]
2003-06-04 20:00     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-06-04 21:33   ` Alan Cox
2003-06-04  0:28 Dan Christian
2003-06-04  0:32 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-06-04 16:00   ` Dan Christian
2003-06-04  5:30 ` Keith Owens
2003-06-04  8:31 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-06-04  9:34   ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2003-06-04 15:57     ` Dan Christian

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