linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.36, make oldconfig broken

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Date:	Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:26:45 -0400
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.36, make oldconfig broken

On Saturday, October 23, 2010, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>hi Gene,
>
>* Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com> 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.

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