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on 11/28/2008 12:33 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: |
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> On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:47:24 +0200, Thanasis wrote: |
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>> Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to |
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>> 2.6.26-r3, but the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem, |
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>> because it's on a RAID1 on an SIL680 controller. |
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>> In the previous kernel I had CONFIG_PATA_SIL680=y , but in the new |
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>> .config I cannot find any PATA. |
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>> # grep -i pata .config |
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>> (gives nothing) |
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> |
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> Grepping .config is a bad way of looking for options. If option A |
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> disables B, A will appear as not set and B will not be mentioned. The |
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> proper way is to use the / key to search in make menuconfig, which will |
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> show you that you need ATA_SFF enabled to see many of the PATA and SATA |
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> drivers now. |
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I just didn't know about the / key. |
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Very useful. |
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Thanks Neil. |
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:-) |
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PS: are there any other keys one should know about? |
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