| Date | Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:58:12 -0700 | From | "Nish Aravamudan" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 |
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On 6/28/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc6/2.6.22-rc6-mm1/ > > - NOTE (an uppercase one, indeed): there are a lot of menuconfig changes in > here which break `make oldconfig' badly. If you grab an old .config and run > `make oldconfig', your kernel probably won't work. I lost useful things > like CONFIG_BLK_DEV and the whole SCSI system, because they were added after > I generated my .config. > > So save yourself some hassle and check your .config carefully before > building this kernel. Make sure that everything you need is still enabled. > > I found that manually adding "CONFIG_BLK_DEV=y" to the .config before > running oldconfig saved a large number of config items from getting lost.
On the one ppc64 machine I have to test on for memoryless nodes, I found I had to add back in CONFIG_BLK_DEV=y and CONFIG_SCSI_LOWLEVEL=y. Just for reference as other folks pull out their hair.
> Those menuconfig changes have been a huge pain.
Yes.
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