From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757931Ab0JWQ0v (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:26:51 -0400 Received: from mail.wdtv.com ([66.118.69.84]:34018 "EHLO mail.wdtv.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756042Ab0JWQ0u (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:26:50 -0400 From: Gene Heskett To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: 2.6.36, make oldconfig broken Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:26:45 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36; KDE/4.5.2; i686; ; ) Cc: Randy Dunlap , LKML , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org References: <201010221229.36996.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <201010221608.36754.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <20101023134102.GA7893@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20101023134102.GA7893@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010231226.45446.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday, October 23, 2010, Ingo Molnar wrote: >hi Gene, > >* Gene Heskett wrote: >> > Please send your 2.6.35.7 .config file so that we can generate & see >> > the changes. >> >> Attached Randy, & many thanks. >> >> Just for S&G I overwrote the generated .config in the 2.6.36 tree with >> these files, and ran a make xconfig, which bitched about line 3109, >> and which I don't recall ever playing with, "RAR_REGISTER" IIRC, so I >> saved it without any other changes and built/installed & booted from >> that now. > >In case it's useful: i take old .config's and put them into new kernels >all the time, and i very much depend on configured drivers and options >not going away suddenly. I know lots of other developers depend on that >as well. > >In the hundreds or so cases i've done this manually in the past few years >i only remember less than 5 cases where this didnt work in an 'as >expected' way. > >So this should really work for you. If it doesnt when going from 2.6.35 >to 2.6.36 then that's very likely a bug somewhere which we want to fix >... > >Thanks, > > Ingo It was suggested elsewhere in this thread that I run memcheck the next time I reboot. Maybe that will spit something out. I'll post if it does or doesn't when I do. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Bride, n.: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"