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From: mereandor <mereandor@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:48:12
Message-Id: 200704121741.37196.mereandor@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster by Neil Bothwick
1 Am Donnerstag 12 April 2007 17:23 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
2 > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:47:52 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
3 > > > The whole IDE/ATA/SATA/PATA/SCSI layout hingy changed with 2.6.19, so
4 > > > first thing to check is that everything you need is actually enabled
5 > > > in the kernel (yeah, there's some gotchas in there....). Please post
6 > > > your .config
7 > >
8 > > Ya gotta love the Linux tradition of making big, incompatible
9 > > changes between minor revs.
10 >
11 > Actually, the PATA stuff didn't move. New (experimental) drivers were
12 > introduced, but the standard is still in the same place and works exactly
13 > as before.
14 >
15 > The SATA drivers were moved, something that should have been handled by
16 > oldconfig but wasn't :(
17
18 For that reason i prefer to do a:
19
20 make oldconfig 2>/tmp/config.log && less /tmp/config.log
21
22 So you see when a config symbol was renamed.