Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261657AbVBWWsQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:48:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261628AbVBWWrm (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:47:42 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([216.27.176.166]:50147 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261647AbVBWWpl (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:45:41 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:45:30 -0800 From: Matt Mackall To: Steven Cole Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301") Message-ID: <20050223224530.GE3163@waste.org> References: <20050223014233.6710fd73.akpm@osdl.org> <421CB161.7060900@mesatop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <421CB161.7060900@mesatop.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1701 Lines: 55 On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:37:53AM -0700, Steven Cole wrote: > I copied a working .config from an earlier kernel(-rc3), and ran make > oldconfig, answering most of the new questions 'n'. Then you get into trouble with stuff under CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Answering 'n' turns off stock functionality. Though you really ought not have CONFIG_EMBEDDED turned on anyway. I'm not sure how CONFIG_BASE_SMALL is causing problems as the blockdev bit got dropped already. I'll poke around.. Andrew, looks like turning on EMBEDDED causes a bunch of options to spill onto the general setup menu in menuconfig because of the placement of the bool piece: Fix up bustedness in menuconfig Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall Index: mm1/init/Kconfig =================================================================== --- mm1.orig/init/Kconfig 2005-02-23 13:32:38.000000000 -0800 +++ mm1/init/Kconfig 2005-02-23 14:27:18.699676896 -0800 @@ -274,11 +274,6 @@ config BASE_FULL Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core kernel data structures. -config BASE_SMALL - int - default 0 if BASE_FULL - default 1 if !BASE_FULL - config FUTEX bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED default y @@ -360,6 +355,11 @@ config TINY_SHMEM default !SHMEM bool +config BASE_SMALL + int + default 0 if BASE_FULL + default 1 if !BASE_FULL + menu "Loadable module support" config MODULES -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/