From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763981AbXGNA6W (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:58:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759086AbXGNA6P (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:58:15 -0400 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.186]:39034 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758459AbXGNA6P (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:58:15 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=PL+3IxZZyObsBHZyMuDjiYfWD0GWkXpZQsVzPh1pJ9Mg6S7bt1eMl0zfcgtbIZ6Ld5i0AcdjzfGtffC8yQh0SoXrZAaYIlXdxiifxwa4zsOXEaGunNOAkhR3rdZyXAKH7Z46Q3SlqmSJfRmiuGfjd168wOiwBBdLo/pBJZApzV8= Message-ID: <29495f1d0707131758x63b81cc2y44d4f2ac574f3a9b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:58:12 -0700 From: "Nish Aravamudan" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070628034321.38c9f12b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070628034321.38c9f12b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/28/07, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc6/2.6.22-rc6-mm1/ > > - NOTE (an uppercase one, indeed): there are a lot of menuconfig changes in > here which break `make oldconfig' badly. If you grab an old .config and run > `make oldconfig', your kernel probably won't work. I lost useful things > like CONFIG_BLK_DEV and the whole SCSI system, because they were added after > I generated my .config. > > So save yourself some hassle and check your .config carefully before > building this kernel. Make sure that everything you need is still enabled. > > I found that manually adding "CONFIG_BLK_DEV=y" to the .config before > running oldconfig saved a large number of config items from getting lost. On the one ppc64 machine I have to test on for memoryless nodes, I found I had to add back in CONFIG_BLK_DEV=y and CONFIG_SCSI_LOWLEVEL=y. Just for reference as other folks pull out their hair. > Those menuconfig changes have been a huge pain. Yes. Thanks, Nish