On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:17:46 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:01:30 PDT, Andrew Morton said: > > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:50:30 -0400 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
