Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:52:16 -0700 | | From | "Justin P. Mattock" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kconfig: fix make oldconfig |
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On 08/06/2010 11:09 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Sam Ravnborg<sam@ravnborg.org> wrote: >> >> Hmm, I wonder why you call oldconfig explicitly? >> >> A plain "make -j16" executes "silentoldconfig" if there >> is any changes in a Kconfig* file or in .config. >> Just double checked and it works as I expected. >> >> So you are asked if there is any new options anyway even >> if you skip your "oldconfig" step. > > Try this: > > git clean -dqfx > make -j16> ../makes > > It doesn't work, because "make silentconfig" will say > > *** > *** You have not yet configured your kernel! > *** (missing kernel config file ".config") > *** > *** Please run some configurator (e.g. "make oldconfig" or > *** "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig"). > *** > > which is why I always run "make oldconfig". > > Sure, I could do it only when I need to, but quite frankly, it's much > easier to just always do the thing that works, rather than try > something that doesn't work, do something else, and then re-try the > thing that can fail. > > Linus > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
the above command does break over here. using the make oldconfig command seems to be working after I did the make menuconfig.
Now before doing all of this I did make a copy of the entire kernel for a new system Im building(clfs) so I went into that tree and did a make oldconfig and(luckily) hit the non responsive oldconfig thing that Linus had originally posted.
here is a strace of when make oldconfig was not working(with git log at the top)
http://fpaste.org/317B/
and strace of a git pull today and make oldconfig does not crap out and starts asking me y/n options:
http://fpaste.org/QWWn/
hope this helps with debugging and such.
Justin P. Mattock
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