From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IAnnB-0001CW-1y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:12:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6HEB7g0009437; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:11:07 GMT Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6HE2ar9029479 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:02:37 GMT Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C43D79A5 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:02:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:02:36 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: tK62jwJFZfPyluMaMvDvCsGm2GIU1ivB+LZvMBDpm+Ls 1184680956 Received: from [192.168.31.10] (cpe-76-185-203-114.tx.res.rr.com [76.185.203.114]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E46110B48 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:02:35 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200707171519.41544.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> References: <200707171241.02990.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200707171345.27255.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200707171519.41544.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Foundation Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:02:31 -0500 Message-Id: <1184680951.15828.57.camel@blackwidow.nbk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ba10e4e2-d223-4d0e-afa5-dab9d369ce62 X-Archives-Hash: 9161851166a1f10959d691b796e1dbf0 On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 15:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:20, Billy McCann wrote: > > > Hi Mick. From what I understand, using oldconfig for major > > > version changes (.20 -> .21) is a bad idea. Here's what I did. It > > > may be slow and stupid but it worked like a charm. > > > > Sure, but I have been using oldconfig for previous major changes and > > never had a problem like this before. > > Now you know why the kernel devs keep telling you not to do it, heh :-) > I don't know which kernel dev keeps saying that, but I'd recommend he/she specify what is meant by "major version" since, historically: 2.6.22 ^ ^ ^ | | +--- Revision | +----- Minor version +------- Major version And therefore .20 -> .21 would not be considered a "major" version change by most accounts. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list