Hi,
Steven Rostedt wrote:
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 19:46 +0100, Patrick Ringl wrote:
Hi,
I have encountered the following malfunction of the recently added
streamline_config script. When running the following occurs:
ack:~/linux-2.6.32# scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl >config_strip
Note, I usually use "make localmodconfig", I know you know that, but in
case anyone else is using this as a reference.
using config: '.config'
Use of uninitialized value $ksource in concatenation (.) or string at
scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl line 117.
dock config not found!!
module pata_sis did not have configs CONFIG_PATA_SIS
As a result: it couldnt map one currently loaded module properly and the
other module had been properly mapped, but somehow the
dependency/integrity check triggered it, since it wasnt enabled properly.
I checked the output of the script and yea as I assumed CONFIG_ACPI_DOCK
is not set.
'dock' refers to:
ack:~/linux-2.6.32# modinfo dock
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/acpi/dock.ko
and the belonging Kconfig file says:
config ACPI_DOCK
bool "Dock"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
help
This driver supports ACPI-controlled docking stations and
removable
drive bays such as the IBM Ultrabay and the Dell Module Bay.
The same with 'pata_sis' (CONFIG_PATA_SIS is also not set) ..
ack:~/linux-2.6.32# modinfo pata_sis
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/ata/pata_sis.ko
and the belonging Kconfig file:
config SATA_SIS
tristate "SiS 964/965/966/180 SATA support"
depends on PCI
select PATA_SIS
help
This option enables support for SiS Serial ATA on
SiS 964/965/966/180 and Parallel ATA on SiS 180.
The PATA support for SiS 180 requires additionally to
enable the PATA_SIS driver in the config.
If unsure, say N.
In the end (if one ignored the two missing modules) a make
silentoldconfig didnt even work.
How did it fail?
Well it started the configuration itself all over thus the first
question that waited was:
Kernel compression mode
> 1. Gzip (KERNEL_GZIP) (NEW)
2. Bzip2 (KERNEL_BZIP2) (NEW)
3. LZMA (KERNEL_LZMA) (NEW)
choice[1-3?]: ^Cmake[1]: *** [silentoldconfig] Interrupt
What I did to reproduce this was using the standard kernel config of
debian lenny's amd64 branch.
I don't know where to find that config, could you email it to me, or
post a url of it. Also send me your lsmod as well.
It is located in /boot/config-`uname -r` if you have Debian installed.
Accessing it from the outside, you have to download the appropriate
linux-image or rather the patch where Debian stores it's changed:
http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.26-19lenny2.diff.gz
..But just for the record: I copied the kernelconfig to .config in the
kernel source dir just to be sure ;-)
PS: I wrote such software myself, but I am going a totally different
approach. Your idea is not that bad actually (I am enabling kernel
config options and I am tracking all dependencies properly, while you
can just ignore them, since your script only disables stuff).
Yeah, I toyed with doing the dependency game, but that got quite complex
and fragile. I found the safest thing is to just turn off modules that
you don't want. 99% of the time, that's good enough.
-- Steve
Heh, yea the dependency 'game' is quite wodge tho .. but there's other
methods of fetching them than parsing the Kconfig files .. I didnt
follow THIS approach after playing a lot with it ..
PS: lsmod is attached
Module Size Used by
ext2 66576 1
ipmi_devintf 13200 2
ipmi_si 43628 1
ipmi_msghandler 38520 2 ipmi_devintf,ipmi_si
snd_pcsp 14588 0
snd_pcm 81800 1 snd_pcsp
snd_timer 25744 1 snd_pcm
snd 63688 3 snd_pcsp,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 12064 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 13072 1 snd_pcm
rng_core 8968 0
i2c_i801 13596 0
i2c_core 27936 1 i2c_i801
serio_raw 9988 0
psmouse 42268 0
shpchp 34208 0
pci_hotplug 32056 1 shpchp
i5000_edac 12936 0
edac_core 49560 3 i5000_edac
evdev 14208 0
ext3 125072 1
jbd 51240 1 ext3
mbcache 12804 2 ext2,ext3
raid1 24192 2
md_mod 80292 3 raid1
usbhid 45792 0
hid 41792 1 usbhid
ff_memless 9224 1 usbhid
ahci 33036 6
ehci_hcd 36108 0
uhci_hcd 25760 0
bnx2 63496 0
firmware_class 12544 1 bnx2
thermal_sys 17728 0
tg3 97156 0
sd_mod 29376 8
sata_nv 28680 0
sata_sis 10500 0
pata_sis 7936 1 sata_sis
sata_via 13060 0
ata_piix 22660 0
libata 165600 6 ahci,sata_nv,sata_sis,pata_sis,sata_via,ata_piix
dock 14112 1 libata
piix 12424 0 [permanent]
ide_core 128284 1 piix
3w_xxxx 28064 0
scsi_mod 161016 3 sd_mod,libata,3w_xxxx
