This is a note to let we have just queued up the patch titled
Subject: uml: use DEFCONFIG_LIST to avoid reading host's config
to the -stable tree. Its filename is
uml-use-defconfig_list-to-avoid-reading-host-s-config.patch
A git repo of this tree can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/stable/stable-queue/
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 5 14:10:16 2006
From: "Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 22:01:47 +0200
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[email protected]>
Subject: uml: use DEFCONFIG_LIST to avoid reading host's config
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/um/Kconfig | 5 +++++
init/Kconfig | 1 +
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
--- linux-2.6.18.orig/arch/um/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6.18/arch/um/Kconfig
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+config DEFCONFIG_LIST
+ string
+ option defconfig_list
+ default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
+
# UML uses the generic IRQ sugsystem
config GENERIC_HARDIRQS
bool
--- linux-2.6.18.orig/init/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6.18/init/Kconfig
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
config DEFCONFIG_LIST
string
+ depends on !UML
option defconfig_list
default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
default "/etc/kernel-config"
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are
queue-2.6.18/uml-allow-using-again-x86-x86_64-crypto-code.patch
queue-2.6.18/uml-use-defconfig_list-to-avoid-reading-host-s-config.patch
queue-2.6.18/uml-fix-uml-build-failure.patch
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