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From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Subject: Re: Latest tip kernel(3.2-rc1-tip_cf6b3899) fails to boot on x3850x5 machine
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:10:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1324087834.1984.299.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111216083634.GA4170@elte.hu>

On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 00:36 -0800, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> The problem is spuriously re-asking a question that *has already 
> been answered by the user*, and if the user accidentally just 
> accepts the default, the config breaks.
> 
> We try to keep things working fine across 'make oldconfig', i.e. 
> if the .config worked before, it should work after a 'make 
> oldconfig' as well.
> 

Ok. So what is the recommended way to do this, for example when we
change a config option name with no other dependency changes etc?

thanks,
suresh


  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-17  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-14 10:48 Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-14 13:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-12-14 20:17   ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-12-14 20:35     ` Yinghai Lu
2011-12-14 20:56       ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-12-15  2:24       ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-15  2:40         ` Yinghai Lu
2011-12-15  7:19           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-15 19:16             ` Yinghai Lu
2011-12-15 20:25               ` Suresh Siddha
2011-12-16  3:41                 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-16  8:36                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-17  2:10                   ` Suresh Siddha [this message]
2011-12-18  8:32                     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-16  8:40               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-16 18:03                 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-12-17  2:18                   ` Suresh Siddha

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