Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:37:54 -0400 | From | Jeff Dike <> | Subject | Re: uml: use DEFCONFIG_LIST to avoid reading host's config |
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On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:01:47PM +0200, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso wrote: > From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> > > This should make sure that, for UML, host's configuration files are not > considered, which avoids various pains to the user. Our dependency are such that > the obtained Kconfig will be valid and will lead to successful compilation - > however they cannot prevent an user from disabling any boot device, and if an > option is not set in the read .config (say /boot/config-XXX), with make > menuconfig ARCH=um, it is not set. This always disables UBD and all console I/O > channels, which leads to non-working UML kernels, so this bothers users - > especially now, since it will happen on almost every machine > (/boot/config-`uname -r` exists almost on every machine). It can be workarounded > with make defconfig ARCH=um, but it is non-obvious and can be avoided, so please > _do_ merge this patch. > > Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Paolo - send this to Andrew as well so it doesn't get lost.
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