Ah, thanks for clarifying this.

Unfortunately this means, that there is a small chance, that "make oldconfig" 
will not
work correctly in all cases, eg. upgrading a kernel to a newer version could 
yield into
such failed compile step :-(

Am Monday 11 September 2006 08:33 schrieb Erez Zilber:
> Toralf Förster wrote:
> > Your're right, sorry,
> >
> > I forgot this to say that:
> > - first I created a random .config file using "make rndconfig"
> > - after that I removed all options not fitting my system
> > - then I prepended some options commonly used by me on top of the .config 
> > file
> > - and run finally a "make oldconfig" to-hopefully- get a clean config
> >
> > Doesn't "make oldconfig" make a clean .config file ?
> >   
> >
> Here's what the kernel's README file has to say about it:
> "make oldconfig": Default all questions based on the contents of your 
> existing ./.config file and asking about new config symbols.
> 
> I guess that 'make rndconfig' selected CONFIG_INFINIBAND=y, but didn't 
> select CONFIG_INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS=y. Then, 'make oldconfig' asked you 
> about new symbols. I guess that running 'make rndconfig' may create 
> scenarios like this, but I don't think that there's a bug in iSER's 
> Kconfig file. If you still want to use your .config file, reselect 
> InfiniBand in 'make menuconfig'. It will set CONFIG_INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS=y.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Erez
> 
> 

-- 
MfG/Sincerely
Toralf Förster

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