[gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 09/11/2010 03:31 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> On 09/11/2010 01:18 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote:
>>>
>>> I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just
>>> hang after grub starts loading the kernel.
>>
>> If you updated from 2.6.34 or even 33, then there shouldn't be a
>> problem; "make oldconfig" should have worked OK and presented
>> new/changed config options in a sane way.
>
> On this particular box I was updating from 2.6.24 to 2.6.35 and I always
> use 'make silentoldconfig' when upgrading.

Extremely bad idea.  It's no wonder something did break.  You can't just 
"silentoldconfig" between kernel versions and expect it to always work. 
  At least "oldconfig" would catch new options (which might be options 
replacing old ones.)