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From: "vivo75@×××××.com" <vivo75@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: CONFIG_CHECK_FATAL, making CONFIG_CHECKS fatal by default
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:30:01
Message-Id: 5101D1E4.8000707@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: CONFIG_CHECK_FATAL, making CONFIG_CHECKS fatal by default by Michael Orlitzky
1 Il 24/01/2013 21:45, Michael Orlitzky ha scritto:
2 > On 01/24/13 15:39, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
3 >> On 01/24/13 15:26, vivo75@×××××.com wrote:
4 >>>> If you're going to upgrade both anyway, you should be upgrading the
5 >>>> kernel first. That way if you lose power or the system crashes, the box
6 >>>> can reboot.
7 >>>>
8 >>> which can be the exact opposite order if instead you have to _disable_ a
9 >>> feature in the kernel which would make udev not bootable.
10 >>> Don't remember exactly what, but it happened in the past when Greg was
11 >>> still maintainer and an obsolete feature was making udev confused.
12 >>>
13 >> Suppose, you're on e.g. udev-1, and,
14 >>
15 >> * udev-2 requires CONFIG_FOO=n
16 >> * udev-1 will not boot with CONFIG_FOO=y
17 > Sorry, that should be an 'n' instead of a 'y'. I started out with 'y'
18 > and tried to switch to 'n' to match your example.
19 >
20 >
21 actually it wasn't an issue that could made a system un-bootable but was
22 like this:
23
24 * udev-129 could live with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
25 * udev-130 require CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not set
26
27 The example was given just to underline the fact that a different emerge
28 order may be required.
29
30 cheers

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