Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932228AbWJEVjm (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:39:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932243AbWJEVjm (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:39:42 -0400 Received: from [198.99.130.12] ([198.99.130.12]:45747 "EHLO saraswathi.solana.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932228AbWJEVjl (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:39:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:37:54 -0400 From: Jeff Dike To: "Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso" Cc: stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: uml: use DEFCONFIG_LIST to avoid reading host's config Message-ID: <20061005213754.GC6790@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> References: <11600785071661-git-send-email-blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <11600785071661-git-send-email-blaisorblade@yahoo.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1379 Lines: 27 On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:01:47PM +0200, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso wrote: > From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso > > 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 Acked-by: Jeff Dike Paolo - send this to Andrew as well so it doesn't get lost. Jeff - 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/