Re: uml: use DEFCONFIG_LIST to avoid reading host's config

From: Jeff Dike
Date: Thu Oct 05 2006 - 17:39:58 EST


On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:01:47PM +0200, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso wrote:
> From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@xxxxxxxx>
>
> 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@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Paolo - send this to Andrew as well so it doesn't get lost.

Jeff
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