From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N12nk-00016v-I2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:54:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08FE3E0957; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:54:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f215.google.com (mail-bw0-f215.google.com [209.85.218.215]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B370EE0958 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:54:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so635259bwz.26 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:54:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=M0IBWLImbLMvVMWWQYksuM48U02IZCBD0u3JwmfkCDM=; b=B53rKRE50SXm6Q43DThxvMIUL//gALb3ZhUMliqwUfGyLbes4fcHlzEk+6GGKNNKO2 HCsbp06E3zhIpxrO/SziJzYmQWtVNNvmxMdxHe2158HxyHoav+dQOzAzGVOuu7UvkE0V ieNa9s/ejPQbUoDMSmT73UyW6YL5v5iGKIYws= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=W+NYOOufMXjP5GWs6w1wZ1BiGP24fytsP2ryrB9tYXYBBi51vXh/Jdht5MMF5WPAtQ TwEpospUJ9D46qzNoMe82qf5P3lMCY9SuUANSaHKQ93K/9tKHUUcPf2h1NTs36xysoh6 ni+zHbeXWxwc5IxtOU+6Jujrx+Rw7+92TzYHE= Received: by 10.103.78.22 with SMTP id f22mr4298700mul.14.1256237657907; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:54:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-140-101-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.140.101]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s10sm42736muh.54.2009.10.22.11.54.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:54:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:53:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910222053.14505.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b290d885-bbb9-4e90-960c-0e39b271514a X-Archives-Hash: 23f804ed2dd1856c28970b26dff86a2b On Thursday 22 October 2009 20:36:48 Maxim Wexler wrote: > OK, went ahead and did it. It's already broke, what's the harm?. > Looks like I'll be answering a lot of questions before I'm done. > STRIP_ASM_SYMS !? what th'? run menuconfig in another terminal, type "/", enter the string, press enter, read screen. Possibly google some stuff. Entire problem sorted But tell me, how is that different from doing it from scratch? You'd still look at the option, you'd still have a "???WTF???" moment, you'd still use the help function, google and this list. I fail to see any real difference.... Unless of course your emotions and frustrations are clouding your judgement in this regard... > > On 10/22/09, Maxim Wexler wrote: > >> Why not copy over the .29 config and run make oldconfig? > > > > I thought of that, but isn't there too much difference in the > > versions? I read somewhere that taking to big a leap between versions > > is unsafe. Not to mention the great whack of new options. If you do a > > diff -y between the two configs there are lots of gaps. > > > > mw > -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com