From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754940AbYGJEpK (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:45:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752339AbYGJEo7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:44:59 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:20645 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752233AbYGJEo6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:44:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 21:44:29 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: "K. Ernel" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CONFIG_NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS not set in /proc/config.gz Message-Id: <20080709214429.63f792d2.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <200807091622.m69GMjnH025474@wildsau.enemy.org> References: <200807091622.m69GMjnH025474@wildsau.enemy.org> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.0; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 18:22:45 +0200 (MET DST) K. Ernel wrote: > > hello list, > > I usually switch to a new kernel version using the > old .config file by doing: > > # zcat /proc/config.gz > .config > # make oldconfig > > however, with the last two (or so) versions, I always lost the network > file system configuration. It's not present in config.gz, > while in the old .config of the previous release, it _is_ > present, plus I'm abble to use network file system support > in the current (before the update) kernel. > > e.g.: > > (1) kernel version: > # uname -r > 2.6.25.9 > > (2) this kernel version's configuration in the sources: > # grep NETWORK_FILE linux-2.6.25.9/.config > CONFIG_NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS=y > > (3) this kernel version's configuration in /proc/config.gz > # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep NETWORK_FILE > # CONFIG_NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS is not set > > (4) to proof this kernel version has indeed network filesystem: > # lsmod| grep nfs > nfs 86896 1 > lockd 38280 2 nfs > nfs_acl 1792 1 nfs > sunrpc 101884 10 nfs,lockd,nfs_acl > > > to me, this looks like "CONFIG_NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS" is "forgotten" in > config.gz, but what do I know ... > > please fix if possible, Hi, I can't reproduce it on 2.6.25.9 or 2.6.26-rc9. If there is any more info that you could provide, please do so. (not that I know what it would be) --- ~Randy Linux Plumbers Conference, 17-19 September 2008, Portland, Oregon USA http://linuxplumbersconf.org/