From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc5-mm1, make oldconfig from 2.6.18-rc5 destroys LVM
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 18:40:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060902184054.5db9fe00.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17658.9856.132429.196116@smtp.charter.net>
On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 20:49:04 -0400
"John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org> wrote:
>
> Andrew,
>
> When I do a make oldconfig under 2.6.18-rc5-mm1, with my working
> 2.6.18-rc5 .config file (appended below), all the LVM and MD stuff
> gets blown away silently. It looks like the drivers/md/Kconfig didn't
> get updated properly when it was tweaked, possibly the new options to
> get rid of BLOCK devices, or the ripping out of LVM1 stuff.
>
> It looks like instead of 'if CONFIG_BLOCK' at the top, it just needs
> to be 'if BLOCK' instead.
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc5/2.6.18-rc5-mm1/hot-fixes/
contains a fix for this.
> And I'd really suggest that it NOT be this silly name BLOCK, something
> more meaningful, like USE_BLOCK_DEVICES or something equally useful to
> parse.
mm... I think CONFIG_BLOCK is a reasonable compromise between the needs for
brevity and understandability.
--
VGER BF report: H 0.277375
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2006-09-03 0:49 John Stoffel
2006-09-03 1:40 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-09-03 2:30 ` John Stoffel
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