On Sunday, 01.05.2005 at 09:05 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > After finding the difference between my konfig file and my .config > file I copied the former back over the .config, stepped through make > config and was able to enable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX. I compiled a > new kernel and found hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdb turned on dma with no > problem.
Great! > Subsequently I ran make menuconfig and found it now included all the > choices that were in konfig. > > So the problem is solved although I have no idea why some of the > options had disappeared from .config. Almost certainly because you forgot to run "make oldconfig" at some stage. This is required if you want to modify a configuration file that was defined on a different kernel version, other the behaviour you describe will happen. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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