Re: 2.6.36, make oldconfig broken

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday, October 22, 2010, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>On 10/22/10 13:08, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Friday, October 22, 2010, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:29:36 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> 
>>> [adding linux-kbuild]
>>> 
>>>> Greets all;
>>>> 
>>>> I have managed to get 2.6.36 to a semi-usable state, but I have major
>>>> breakage yet.
>>>> 
>>>> Question: what happens if I simply move my working 2.6.35.7 .config
>>>> into the 2.6.36 tree and build it from that?
>>> 
>>> I think that it runs 'make oldconfig' automatically for you.
>>> 
>>>> It can't be any worse than what the broken 'make oldconfig' did to
>>>> it. What it output changed the disk drivers, graphic card drivers
>>>> and just plain threw away at least a hundred lines in the multimedia
>>>> drivers section.
>
>When I use your config-2.6.36.7 file on 2.6.36 and run 'make oldconfig',
Correction, that config was from 2.6.35.7.

>I don't see anything like changes in disk or graphics card drivers and
>I don't see 100 or more lines thrown away in the multimedia drivers.
>
>Did you use 'make oldconfig' or did you use that script that you have
>mentioned and posted in the past?  Could it be causing problems?

My script (buildit26) takes an old argument and a new argument, that and 
any patch names needed are edited into it, not passed as arguments, 
although I have thought of doing that, but as that can lead to typu's 
getting past these old fingers, I don't trust me doing it with live 
arguments.  It copy's the old .configs to /tmp long enough to unpack the 
new, then copy's them into the new tree.  And they do a make oldconfig after 
any patches have been applied.

It hasn't been edited since I ran it, so I'll attach it.  Maybe you can see 
something I missed.

Thanks Randy.

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