On Saturday, October 23, 2010, Ingo Molnar wrote: >hi Gene, > >* Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxx> 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" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
