severity 626851 minor quit Rares Aioanei wrote:
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD was the culprit. However, I don't understand exactly what > happened, since I did not alter no config file. I guess it's something I'm > missing; now it's all ok. Sorry for the bother. :-) Okay, that's puzzling. I think I've missed something in your description of the problem: could you please enlighten me? If I understand correctly now: * you always build the kernel from source, never using the pre-built linux-image-... files. * the configuration you use (with "make *config" or by copying in a .config file) is made by hand, not the stock configuration. * for some reason, versions at and before 2.6.38-4 correctly included CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD in that .config file, and later versions did not. Is that right? It's possible that some dependency between configuration items changed in a bad way, but without knowing exactly how the configuration was chosen that is hard to check. The configuration system is documented in "Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt". For now, I'm lowering the severity since it seems you have a working system. If you have ideas for how "make config" could work, better documentation, build-time sanity checks, run-time error messages, etc. to improve this, then maybe this can move forward; otherwise, please feel free to close this bug by sending mail to 626851-d...@bugs.debian.org. Sorry for all the confusion. Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
