Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:15:10 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 |
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On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:17:46 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:01:30 PDT, Andrew Morton said: > > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:50:30 -0400 > > Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > > > Odd - just for grins, I checked what 'make oldconfig' did when handed a .config > > > from 22-rc4-mm2, and it behaved just fine, much to my surprise. > > > > That's probably because your old config file was relatively recent, and > > had things like CONFIG_BLK_DEV=y in it. > > Ahh... <light bulb goes on> Yeah, it gets a 'make oldconfig' for pretty > much every single -mm, I suck at any regression testing other than "since > the last -mm". >
All my .configs have mouldered since I lost the ability to have .config be a symlink to a revision-controlled file (used to carry a custom patch for this, but it died).
I continue to believe that kbuild's lets-trash-your-symlink behaviour is obnoxious, but I was unable to persuade anyone else of this.
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