Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:49:57
Message-Id: 20070402093858.7449b144@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels? by Walter Dnes
1 On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 01:35:42 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
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3 > I got bitten in the latest stable kernel (2.6.19-r5). It moved SATA
4 > support out of SCSI, and into a separate section altogether. I plowed
5 > through "make oldconfig", hitting "N" for every option. Because I have
6 > a SATA drive, the result was kernel panic when I rebooted into the new
7 > kernel.
8
9 Same here, and it was the only time I've had a problem with make
10 oldconfig since switching to 2.6 however long ago. That really was a one
11 off situation that should have been addressed with a suitable ewarn, but
12 hindsight makes that easy.
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16 Neil Bothwick
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18 deja vous - the act of forgetting someone's name /again/ despite being
19 introduced to them several times.

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