linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1

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Date:	Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:58:47 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:17:38 +0200 (CEST)
Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> >   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.
> 
> This patch should help for this, so that this isn't done when Kconfig or 
> .config has been changed and they are not in sync.
> 
> bye, Roman
> 
> 
> Reset generates values only if Kconfig and .config agree.

unclear.  Could you please explain further what this change does?

Thanks.
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