On 10/22/10 17:54, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday, October 22, 2010, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On 10/22/10 13:08, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Friday, October 22, 2010, Randy Dunlap wrote: >>>> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:29:36 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> >>>> [adding linux-kbuild] >>>> >>>>> Greets all; >>>>> >>>>> I have managed to get 2.6.36 to a semi-usable state, but I have major >>>>> breakage yet. >>>>> >>>>> Question: what happens if I simply move my working 2.6.35.7 .config >>>>> into the 2.6.36 tree and build it from that? >>>> >>>> I think that it runs 'make oldconfig' automatically for you. >>>> >>>>> It can't be any worse than what the broken 'make oldconfig' did to >>>>> it. What it output changed the disk drivers, graphic card drivers >>>>> and just plain threw away at least a hundred lines in the multimedia >>>>> drivers section. >> >> When I use your config-2.6.36.7 file on 2.6.36 and run 'make oldconfig', > Correction, that config was from 2.6.35.7. > >> I don't see anything like changes in disk or graphics card drivers and >> I don't see 100 or more lines thrown away in the multimedia drivers. >> >> Did you use 'make oldconfig' or did you use that script that you have >> mentioned and posted in the past? Could it be causing problems? > > My script (buildit26) takes an old argument and a new argument, that and > any patch names needed are edited into it, not passed as arguments, > although I have thought of doing that, but as that can lead to typu's > getting past these old fingers, I don't trust me doing it with live > arguments. It copy's the old .configs to /tmp long enough to unpack the > new, then copy's them into the new tree. And they do a make oldconfig after > any patches have been applied. > > It hasn't been edited since I ran it, so I'll attach it. Maybe you can see > something I missed. Hi Gene, I don't understand the last few lines of buildit26 script: make oldconfig make mrproper make xconfig 'make mrproper' is going to blow away the .config file that was just generated by 'make oldconfig'. 'make help' in the kernel top-level directory says (for mrproper): mrproper - Remove all generated files + config + various backup files then 'make xconfig' is basically going to give you a 'make defconfig', so yes, you would see lots of .config file differences from the previous kernel version. -- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** -- 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
