On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 20:49:04 -0400
"John Stoffel" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Andrew,
>
> When I do a make oldconfig under 2.6.18-rc5-mm1, with my working
> 2.6.18-rc5 .config file (appended below), all the LVM and MD stuff
> gets blown away silently. It looks like the drivers/md/Kconfig didn't
> get updated properly when it was tweaked, possibly the new options to
> get rid of BLOCK devices, or the ripping out of LVM1 stuff.
>
> It looks like instead of 'if CONFIG_BLOCK' at the top, it just needs
> to be 'if BLOCK' instead.
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc5/2.6.18-rc5-mm1/hot-fixes/
contains a fix for this.
> And I'd really suggest that it NOT be this silly name BLOCK, something
> more meaningful, like USE_BLOCK_DEVICES or something equally useful to
> parse.
mm... I think CONFIG_BLOCK is a reasonable compromise between the needs for
brevity and understandability.
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