Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Jun 29 2007 - 16:59:18 EST


On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:17:38 +0200 (CEST)
Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > So save yourself some hassle and check your .config carefully before
> > building this kernel. Make sure that everything you need is still enabled.
> >
> > I found that manually adding "CONFIG_BLK_DEV=y" to the .config before
> > running oldconfig saved a large number of config items from getting lost.
>
> This patch should help for this, so that this isn't done when Kconfig or
> .config has been changed and they are not in sync.
>
> bye, Roman
>
>
> Reset generates values only if Kconfig and .config agree.

unclear. Could you please explain further what this change does?

Thanks.
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