From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261657AbVFVT1k (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:27:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261606AbVFVT1j (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:27:39 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.192]:42456 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261657AbVFVT0l convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:26:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MXXivs+wvpexnF+Ff+7mgy+yXrFIhYhkPUJwFQ9k3K3g2qTYq/Ipa3ft2p84BjEO2oobuAaSOTD/YGEisD1OgNaNKpfuOisnROT7roPaL/qleA+vljLcvX7z6UwSLVM3sN6hJYjqKcpLL8sSkKRhniCQV/tTzGFobwEQvlbhSss= Message-ID: <9a87484905062212264e82d770@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:26:37 +0200 From: Jesper Juhl Reply-To: Jesper Juhl To: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: Problem compiling 2.6.12 Cc: George Kasica , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050622164436.GI3705@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <9a874849050622085975b67c06@mail.gmail.com> <20050622164436.GI3705@stusta.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/22/05, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 05:59:45PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > Don't use a 2.4.x config as the basis for a 2.6.x kernel . > > Build your first 2.6.x kernel config using "make menuconfig", "make > > config", make xconfig" or similar, /then/ you can use that config in > > the future as a base for other 2.6.x kernels with "make oldconfig". > > First of all, this shouldn't result in problems like the one he > reported (see my other mail). > > And I'm surprised you are saying this. I'd have expected that running > "make oldconfig" with a 2.4 kernel should give him a working > configuration. > > Can you explain where you'd expect problems so that we can fix them? > It's been ages since I personally moved to 2.6, but around the time when I made the switch I fed several 2.4 configs to oldconfig and the resulting 2.6 kernels either didn't build properly or they build but were broken in strange ways. Redoing the 2.6 configs from scratch always fixed the problems back then. I also encountered similar reports from people on IRC. Things may have improved since then, but then again maybe they have not.. I'll see if I can dig out a few of my old 2.4 configs and retest if there are still issues. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html