-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 4 Aug 2002 21:20, Phil Karn wrote: > >Again, randomly copying .config files and not checking what might > >have changed is asking for trouble. What made you expect that > >the .config for a particular kernel would work on another kernel? > > That it had always worked for me in the past, for quite a few minor > version increments in the 2.4.x series? > > >Y'mean like this?? > > > > - Do a "make config" to configure the basic kernel. "make config" needs > > That's basically what I've always done. After copying my old .config, > I'd run "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig", browse the menus and then > save the new config file before doing the actual build. You missed an option.
> It just seems that when upgrading from 2.4.18 to 2.4.19, this specific > procedure no longer avoids generating inconsistent or illegal > combinations of configuration parameters that aren't apparent until > run time, after the new kernel has been booted and all the modules had > apparently loaded successfully. So I manually configured 2.4.19 from > scratch, and all is well again. Thanks for the tip. You misunderstand. The configuration you had was entirely consistent and legal. The only problem is that (up to 2.4.19-pre9), we had the choice to select HID, and then you could choose to select the HID device (hiddev) support. The input layer support was always compiled in. In 2.4.19-pre10, I split out the input layer support, and allowed build of HID core with just hiddev support. To consider why this might be useful, imagine network attached storage that doesn't have any input devices attached (or useful), but you want to use a USB UPS. Why have the HID input layer interface? Whether the HID input layer support gets built depends on a configuration option (CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT) that obviously wasn't present in 2.4.19-pre9 and earlier kernels. Your .config for 2.4.18 doesn't have this present, and so when you used it in 2.4.19, the HID input layer interface doesn't get built. We *knew* that some people would get it wrong, but it was ajudged that these would be in the minority. Here is the history: marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=101757625500001&r=1&w=2 - -- http://conf.linux.org.au. 22-25Jan2003. Perth, Australia. Birds in Black. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9TRHxW6pHgIdAuOMRAnU6AJ4oMP+N12FQ9lCadgFYal+onKA0RQCfQ82k 2iA4+39ssyc2fGXzMiyQdh8= =1is8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
