From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 02:10:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 02:10:21 -0400 Received: from sunrise.pg.gda.pl ([153.19.40.230]:28301 "EHLO sunrise.pg.gda.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 02:10:13 -0400 From: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz Message-Id: <200105110610.IAA04590@sunrise.pg.gda.pl> Subject: Re: make menuconfig versus make xconfig, Kernel 2.4 To: backes@rhrk.uni-kl.de Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 08:10:00 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (LINUX Kernel) In-Reply-To: from "Joachim Backes" at May 11, 2001 07:50:40 AM Reply-To: ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Joachim Backes wrote:" > I made an update from Kernel 2.2.19 to 2.4.4, and I made > a copy from the 2.2.19 .config file into the 2.4.4 directory. > > After that, I was wondering about the following fact: > > "make menuconfig" for kernel 2.4.4 showed (what seems to > be correct) for ATA/IDE the same kernel configuration, as it > was shown in 2.2.19, when using the 2.2.19 ".config". > > But: 2.4.4 "make xconfig" using the 2.2.19 .config showed > a disabled ATA/IDE configuration. > > Only after saving the 2.4.4 configuration produced by "make menuconfig", > then the configuration for ATA/IDE was correctly displayed by "make xconfig". The Menuconfig behaviour is probably incorrect. CONFIG_IDE is missing. Try make oldconfig first. -- ======================================================================= Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz ankry@mif.pg.gda.pl phone (48)(58) 347 14 61 Faculty of Applied Phys. & Math., Technical University of Gdansk