RE: [PATCH] Fix -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning seen with make menuconfig

2014-11-27 Thread Anish Bhatt
Aah, ignore this please. Somehow I missed the two other recent mail chains about this very thing, and my patch only covers part of it anyways.-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http

[PATCH] Fix -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning seen with make menuconfig

2014-11-26 Thread Anish Bhatt
Fixes the following : scripts/kconfig/menu.c: In function 'get_symbol_str': scripts/kconfig/menu.c:590:18: warning: 'jump' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] jump->offset = strlen(r->s); ^ scripts/kconfig/menu.c:551:19: note: 'jump' was declar

Re: make menuconfig broken

2008-02-02 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Michal. Thanks for your report. On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 06:29:59PM +0100, Michal Zachar wrote: > I dont know if it was not reported yet or not fixed yet. > > It apeared about in version 2.6.20.xx or there about so it is broken already > awhile. > > Problem: > > changing settings manualy se

make menuconfig broken

2008-02-02 Thread Michal Zachar
I dont know if it was not reported yet or not fixed yet. It apeared about in version 2.6.20.xx or there about so it is broken already awhile. Problem: changing settings manualy seem to work. Where problem apears is that loading alternate config file changes settings but on exit '.config' file

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-15 Thread david
moment and consider the actual scale and impact of the problem at hand. Do "make menuconfig" with the .config you are normally using, count the number of options that are visible, and ask yourself whether we can really expect users to read the help texts for every single option shown. Pe

Re: x86_64 usability bug: Kconfig prompt without help text (was Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig)

2007-09-15 Thread Andi Kleen
> - So, which criteria influence whether HPET_EMULATE_RTC should be > enabled on x86_64 or not? If there is one it needs to be a runtime switch anyways. > > - In case that there is no compelling reason to disable it if its > dependencies are satisfied, shouldn't it rather be invisible

x86_64 usability bug: Kconfig prompt without help text (was Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig)

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
I take the liberty to modify the CC list. Paul Rolland wrote: > Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I assert that a Kconfig prompt (a visible Kconfig variable) _without_ >> help text is a bug. > > Here is an example from 2.6.34-rc6 : > .config - Linux Kernel v2.6.23-rc6 Configuration >

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Stefan, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:25:39 +0200 Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Rolland wrote: > > getting too much of "No help text available" > > usually results in people no more reading the help text. > > I assert that a Kconfig prompt (a visible Kconfig variable) _without_

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-15 Thread Stefan Richter
Paul Rolland wrote: > getting too much of "No help text available" > usually results in people no more reading the help text. I assert that a Kconfig prompt (a visible Kconfig variable) _without_ help text is a bug. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--= - http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
tep back a moment and consider the actual scale and impact of > > >> the problem at hand. > Do "make menuconfig" with the .config you are normally using, count the > number of options that are visible, and ask yourself whether we can > really expect users to read th

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-14 Thread Stefan Richter
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Randy Dunlap wrote: >>> NOTE: ATA enables basic SCSI support; *however*, >>> 'SCSI disk support', 'SCSI tape support', or >>> 'SCSI CDROM support' may also be needed, >>> depending on your hardware configuration. >

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-14 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 05:37:37PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: >> In >> practice, this takes too much time, hence you take an existing .config >> (yours or somebody else's) and go from there. > > Kconfig let's you start with the

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:48:00 +0200 Folkert van Heusden wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly >>> give a

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
igrate to different drivers without > >> reading Kconfig help texts. > > > > Nothing about the patch is only about migration. > > > > The same applies if you configure a kernel from scratch. > > > > Do "make menuconfig" with the .config

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-14 Thread Stefan Richter
Nothing about the patch is only about migration. > > The same applies if you configure a kernel from scratch. > > Do "make menuconfig" with the .config you are normally using, count the > number of options that are visible, and ask yourself whether we can > really expe

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
wards users > who are convinced that they can migrate to different drivers without > reading Kconfig help texts. Nothing about the patch is only about migration. The same applies if you configure a kernel from scratch. Do "make menuconfig" with the .config you are normally using,

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-14 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 05:11:44PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Let's step back a moment and consider the actual scale and impact of the >> problem at hand. >> >> The vast majority of users are consumers of pre-compiled kernels, built by >> People With Clue(tm), who figured t

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-13 Thread Helge Hafting
Randy Dunlap wrote: On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:48:00 +0200 Folkert van Heusden wrote: Hi, Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller while no 'scsi-disk' support was selected? I

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 05:11:44PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: >>> I can see where you're coming from, but logically, this is wrong. >>> There's a huge slew of enterprise machines that only have DVD on SATA. >> ... and enterprise systems don't really care about a few KB more of co

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-11 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Andi Kleen wrote on 09-09-07 23:22: When it costs 1 people half an hour to learn and correct this it wasted 5000 hours of previous livetime. ^^ ^ Poor me. Here I am -- still waiting for my 15 minutes of fame in /this/ life... ;-) bjd - To unsubscribe fr

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-10 Thread Rene Herman
On 09/10/2007 08:38 AM, Stefan Richter wrote: Nevertheless we should try to arrange the menus in a way that makes sense to as many people as possible. The difficulty is, different environments call for different menu layouts, as your previous example of SATA DVD-only boxes demonstrates. Howeve

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-09 Thread Stefan Richter
James Bottomley wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 23:22 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: >> When it costs 1 people half an hour to learn and correct this it >> wasted 5000 hours of previous livetime. >> >> Besides there is no good reason to have ever learned this imho. > > The process of becoming an exp

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-09 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 23:22 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > The current setup expresses the dependencies as they exist -- OPTIONAL > > extras, and that is a problem once a year or so, when someone builds > > Disk support over SCSI/SATA is hardly an "optional extra". It's more the 99+% > case. Usin

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-09 Thread Andi Kleen
> The current setup expresses the dependencies as they exist -- OPTIONAL > extras, and that is a problem once a year or so, when someone builds Disk support over SCSI/SATA is hardly an "optional extra". It's more the 99+% case. > their own kernel but must learn this fact anew. When it costs 10

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andi Kleen wrote: I can see where you're coming from, but logically, this is wrong. There's a huge slew of enterprise machines that only have DVD on SATA. ... and enterprise systems don't really care about a few KB more of code. In fact you definitely want to have SATA compiled in in case you n

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-09 Thread Andi Kleen
> I can see where you're coming from, but logically, this is wrong. > There's a huge slew of enterprise machines that only have DVD on SATA. ... and enterprise systems don't really care about a few KB more of code. In fact you definitely want to have SATA compiled in in case you need to recover th

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-09 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 18:07 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly > > give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sat

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Al Boldi
Al Boldi wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > I once sent a patch to make libata a submenu of scsi. > > > > Which is wrong > > > > Nakked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > The general comments about moving this stuff around and making it > > clearer what sd/sr etc are nowdays are good but hiding l

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Stefan Richter
Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:44:46 +0200 Stefan Richter wrote: >> Randy Dunlap wrote: >>> The problem with 'select' here is that it will enable BLK_DEV_SD, >>> but if SCSI is not enabled, it will not become enabled -- i.e., >>> select does not follow the dependency chain. So usuall

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Stefan Richter
Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 08:30:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Andi Kleen wrote: >>> when you've been using CONFIG_IDE before it is not completely >>> obvious you need BLK_SD for your hard disk. >> Switching to different drivers without reading the help text? >> Tough. > >

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 08:30:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > when you've been using CONFIG_IDE before it is not completely > > obvious you need BLK_SD for your hard disk. > > Switching to different drivers without reading the help text? > Tough. The individual driver de

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:52:35 +0200 Bodo Eggert wrote: > BTW2: I think that menu needs very much reordering. "Block devices" should > be renamed to "Other block devices", AGP support should belong into graphics > support, and many other things I don't even know need to be pushed around. > Even orde

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Stefan Richter
Andi Kleen wrote: > when you've been using CONFIG_IDE before it is not completely > obvious you need BLK_SD for your hard disk. Switching to different drivers without reading the help text? Tough. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--= -=--- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: se

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Stefan Richter
Bodo Eggert wrote: > The real problem is hiding devices attached to some controlers between > one kind of the controllers. This has been correct whern they were bus- > specific, but since they are now shared by three busses, they should get > their own menu called "(S)ATA/USB/SCSI attached devices"

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Andi Kleen
> I'd say that someone needs to use a vendor kernel, or at least > begin with a vendor .config file... Vendor kernels tend to compile forever and require initrds. For just testing a kernel quickly compiling only a few drivers in is much more convenient. Also when you've been using CONFIG_IDE bef

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:50:08AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 08 Sep 2007 18:07:00 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: > > This has also bitten me one or two times. A reasonable way would > > be to just select SD automatically for !EMBEDDED > > I'd say that someone needs to use a vendor kernel, or at lea

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Bodo Eggert
Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >> > I once sent a patch to make libata a submenu of scsi. >> >> Which is wrong >> >> Nakked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> The general comments about moving this stuff around and making it clearer >> what sd/sr etc are nowdays are good

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:44:46 +0200 Stefan Richter wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: > > Stefan Richter wrote: > >> I am not a friend of 'select', but maybe the following actually helps. > ... > > The problem with 'select' here is that it will enable BLK_DEV_SD, > > but if SCSI is not enabled, it will n

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Randy Dunlap
On 08 Sep 2007 18:07:00 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: > Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly > > give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata control

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Stefan Richter
Randy Dunlap wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: >> I am not a friend of 'select', but maybe the following actually helps. ... > The problem with 'select' here is that it will enable BLK_DEV_SD, > but if SCSI is not enabled, it will not become enabled -- i.e., > select does not follow the dependency cha

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Randy Dunlap
Stefan Richter wrote: (added Cc linux-ide) Folkert van Heusden wrote: A popup makes some sense, but I don't know if menuconfig knows how to do popup warnings... and it needs to be done for all *configs, not just menuconfig. Maybe add a new type? How about comment "Note: 'SCSI disk support' is

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 8 2007 17:03, Al Boldi wrote: >Alan Cox wrote: >> > I once sent a patch to make libata a submenu of scsi. >> >> Which is wrong >> >> Nakked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> The general comments about moving this stuff around and making it clearer >> what sd/sr etc are nowdays are good

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Andi Kleen
Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly > give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller > while no 'scsi-disk' support was selected? This has als

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Al Boldi
Alan Cox wrote: > > I once sent a patch to make libata a submenu of scsi. > > Which is wrong > > Nakked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The general comments about moving this stuff around and making it clearer > what sd/sr etc are nowdays are good but hiding libata under SCSI will > cause even

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Alan Cox
> I once sent a patch to make libata a submenu of scsi. Which is wrong Nakked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The general comments about moving this stuff around and making it clearer what sd/sr etc are nowdays are good but hiding libata under SCSI will cause even more confusion than it cures

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 08:35:22AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:48:00 +0200 Folkert van Heusden wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly > > give a pop-up or so when someone selects

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Stefan Richter
Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Sep 8 2007 09:05, Stefan Richter wrote: >> config ATA_SD >> tristate "SATA/PATA HDD support (via SCSI disk support)" >> depends on ATA >> select BLK_DEV_SD >> help >>'SCSI disk support' is required to access SATA HDDs. It is [...] >>Yo

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 8 2007 09:05, Stefan Richter wrote: >config ATA > [...] > >comment "Controller drivers" > >[...low-level drivers go here...] > >comment "Storage device drivers" > >config ATA_SD > tristate "SATA/PATA HDD support (via SCSI disk support)" > depends on ATA > select BLK_

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 8 2007 01:02, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >On Sep 7 2007 21:38, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >>> Ok, but that's not the most common situaties. What I'm suggesting is a >>> warning or a please note popup. Not neccessarily an error or refusing to >>> continue thing. >> >>What IMHO makes sense is changin

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Stefan Richter
(added Cc linux-ide) Folkert van Heusden wrote: A popup makes some sense, but I don't know if menuconfig knows how to do popup warnings... and it needs to be done for all *configs, not just menuconfig. >>> Maybe add a new type? >> How about >> comment "Note: 'SCSI disk support' is r

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-07 Thread Al Boldi
Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >> Ok, but that's not the most common situaties. What I'm suggesting is a >> warning or a please note popup. Not neccessarily an error or refusing to >> continue thing. > >What IMHO makes sense is changing all references to SCSI CDROM, >SCSI DISK etc. to just CDROM, DISK, an

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-07 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> >> I know that it's difficult to get people to read docs & help text, > >> and maybe it is needed in more places, but CONFIG_ATA (SATA/PATA) > >> help text says: > >> NOTE: ATA enables basic SCSI support; *however*, > >> 'SCSI disk support', 'SCSI tape support', or > >> 'SCSI CDROM support'

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 7 2007 21:38, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >> Ok, but that's not the most common situaties. What I'm suggesting is a >> warning or a please note popup. Not neccessarily an error or refusing to >> continue thing. > >What IMHO makes sense is changing all references to SCSI CDROM, >SCSI DISK etc. t

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-07 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, but that's not the most common situaties. What I'm suggesting is a > warning or a please note popup. Not neccessarily an error or refusing to > continue thing. What IMHO makes sense is changing all references to SCSI CDROM, SCSI DISK etc. to j

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-07 Thread Stefan Richter
Folkert van Heusden wrote: >> I know that it's difficult to get people to read docs & help text, >> and maybe it is needed in more places, but CONFIG_ATA (SATA/PATA) >> help text says: >> NOTE: ATA enables basic SCSI support; *however*, >> 'SCSI disk support', 'SCSI tape support', or >> 'SCSI

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-07 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> > Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly > > give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller > > while no 'scsi-disk' support was selected? > > I know that it's difficult to get people to read docs &

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-07 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:48:00 +0200 Folkert van Heusden wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly > give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller > while no 'scsi-disk' support was selected? I know t

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-07 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> >Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly > >give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller > >while no 'scsi-disk' support was selected? > > Having no sd support is perfectly valid. Imagine a diskless boo

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 7 2007 14:48, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > >Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly >give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller >while no 'scsi-disk' support was selected? Having no sd support is perfectly val

sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-07 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller while no 'scsi-disk' support was selected? Folkert van Heusden -- Multi tail barnamaj mowahib li mora9abat attasjilat wa nataij awamir

Re: make menuconfig refuses to let CONFIG_X86_64=y and CONFIG_64BIT remain

2007-08-07 Thread Dave Jones
figuration file for > makeconfig and then save it without making any changes. The newly saved > file has been restructured for 32bit. Does this sound like a bug? did you set ARCH=x86_64 in the make menuconfig command too ? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from

RE: make menuconfig refuses to let CONFIG_X86_64=y and CONFIG_64BIT remain

2007-08-07 Thread Maes Rich
27;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org' Subject: make menuconfig refuses to let CONFIG_X86_64=y and CONFIG_64BIT remain Hello I'm new to the list. In the process of using make menuconfig, I used an older config(2.6.11) to start my new configuration (2.6.17) and notice that original settings for CONFIG_

make menuconfig refuses to let CONFIG_X86_64=y and CONFIG_64BIT remain

2007-08-07 Thread Maes Rich
Hello I'm new to the list. In the process of using make menuconfig, I used an older config(2.6.11) to start my new configuration (2.6.17) and notice that original settings for CONFIG_X86_64=y and CONFIG_64BIT=y are being over ridden and replace by CONFIG_M686=y setting and CONFIG_X86_32=y

Re: Small problem with kernel 2.6.20 and make menuconfig

2007-02-13 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:17:51 + Dominic Newton wrote: > Just a small issue with the latest kernel 2.6.20. When compiling make > menuconfig our ncurses library is not being detected. I currently use > 2.6.15 with no problem and comparing the 2 I found a script ( > scripts/kcon

Small problem with kernel 2.6.20 and make menuconfig

2007-02-13 Thread Dominic Newton
Just a small issue with the latest kernel 2.6.20. When compiling make menuconfig our ncurses library is not being detected. I currently use 2.6.15 with no problem and comparing the 2 I found a script ( scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh ) in the lxdialog directory that checks for the

Re: [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] signed/unsigned char fix for make menuconfig

2005-07-27 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:14:00PM -0400, Keenan Pepper wrote: > Quiet some silly warnings. Applied, please add Signed-off-by for your next patch. Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

[PATCH] [TRIVIAL] signed/unsigned char fix for make menuconfig

2005-07-27 Thread Keenan Pepper
Quiet some silly warnings. --- linux-2.6.13-rc3-mm2/scripts/lxdialog/dialog.orig.h 2005-07-27 13:59:02.389806392 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc3-mm2/scripts/lxdialog/dialog.h 2005-07-27 13:59:13.437126944 -0400 @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ int dialog_checklist (const char *title, const char *prompt,

Re: make menuconfig creates erronous config for 386

2005-03-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:15:19PM +0100, Gustav Lidberg wrote: > Hi > > There is a bug in "make menuconfig". If one chooses 386 or 486 for cpu > type, CONFIG_X86_TSC=y is set in .config. This creates a kernel that is > unbootable on 386. Testing shows that it

make menuconfig creates erronous config for 386

2005-03-09 Thread Gustav Lidberg
Hi There is a bug in "make menuconfig". If one chooses 386 or 486 for cpu type, CONFIG_X86_TSC=y is set in .config. This creates a kernel that is unbootable on 386. Testing shows that it worked in 2.4.19, but is broken from 2.4.20 onwards. Someone should definetely look into this

Re: make menuconfig

2005-02-14 Thread Nick Warne
On Monday 14 February 2005 12:45, Roman Zippel wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Nick Warne wrote: > > So I can ignore the debug prints? > > Yes. OK, thanks for your replies. I am since trying 2.6.10 again (with new GCC version and system memory this time), and the messages do not appear in later

Re: make menuconfig

2005-02-14 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Nick Warne wrote: > So I can ignore the debug prints? Yes. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read t

Re: make menuconfig

2005-02-14 Thread Nick Warne
On Monday 14 February 2005 12:12, you wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Nick Warne wrote: > > Are the optimize && ? lines normal? > > They are only debug prints, but I'm quite sure they are fixed in recent > versions. > > > This is from a current tree that has an uptime of > 50 days > > Coul

Re: make menuconfig

2005-02-14 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Nick Warne wrote: > Are the optimize && ? lines normal? They are only debug prints, but I'm quite sure they are fixed in recent versions. > This is from a current tree that has an uptime of > 50 days Could you specify "current tree"? bye, Roman - To unsubscribe f

make menuconfig

2005-02-14 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, I only just noticed this, but been building kernel source for a long time. On my 233 over ssh, it is a bit slow, and I just noticed this output when doing a 'make menuconfig': make[1]: `scripts/fixdep' is up to date. scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/i386/Kconfig optimize

Re: patches to 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 - make menuconfig shows "v2.6.8.1"

2005-01-27 Thread Viktor Horvath
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 22:45 +0100, Timo Kamph wrote: > I guess you did somthing like this: > > 2.6.7 -patch-> 2.6.8 -patch-> 2.6.8.1 -patch-> 2.6.9 -patch-> 2.6.10. > > And you didn't noticed that the 2.6.9 patch failed, because it is diffed > against 2.6.8 and not 2.6.8.1! You're perfectly rig

Re: patches to 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 - make menuconfig shows "v2.6.8.1"

2005-01-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Viktor Horvath wrote: > Hello everybody, > > today I patched myself up from 2.6.7 vanilla to 2.6.10 vanilla, but > after all patches succeeded, "make menuconfig" shows "v2.6.8.1 > Configuration". Even worse, a compiled kernel calls in hi

Re: patches to 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 - make menuconfig shows "v2.6.8.1"

2005-01-27 Thread Timo Kamph
Viktor Horvath wrote: Hello everybody, today I patched myself up from 2.6.7 vanilla to 2.6.10 vanilla, but after all patches succeeded, "make menuconfig" shows "v2.6.8.1 Configuration". Even worse, a compiled kernel calls in his bootlog himself "2.6.8.1". I guess you

Re: patches to 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 - make menuconfig shows "v2.6.8.1"

2005-01-27 Thread linux-os
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Viktor Horvath wrote: Hello everybody, today I patched myself up from 2.6.7 vanilla to 2.6.10 vanilla, but after all patches succeeded, "make menuconfig" shows "v2.6.8.1 Configuration". Even worse, a compiled kernel calls in his bootlog himself "2.6.

patches to 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 - make menuconfig shows "v2.6.8.1"

2005-01-27 Thread Viktor Horvath
Hello everybody, today I patched myself up from 2.6.7 vanilla to 2.6.10 vanilla, but after all patches succeeded, "make menuconfig" shows "v2.6.8.1 Configuration". Even worse, a compiled kernel calls in his bootlog himself "2.6.8.1". When installing the whole

2.4.5-ac21: make menuconfig errors

2001-06-29 Thread sgtphou
I was trying to configure 2.4.5-ac21 when I ran into some problems. First off i noticed this when I went to make menuconfig : root@fire-eyes:/usr/src/linux # make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src

make menuconfig error

2001-06-29 Thread axel
hi, i encountered following err during make menuconfig/net device/10mbitcards selection. axel --- Menuconfig has encountered a possible error in one of the kernel's configuration files and is unable to continue. Here is the error report: Q> scripts/Menuconfig: MCmenu31: command n

Re: 2.4.5-ac20, make menuconfig problem

2001-06-29 Thread f5ibh
>On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, f5ibh wrote: >> make[4]: Entre dans le répertoire >> `/usr/src/kernel-sources-2.4.5-ac20/drivers/pnp' >> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-sources-2.4.5-ac20/include -Wall >> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer >> -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -p

Re: 2.4.5-ac20, make menuconfig problem

2001-06-28 Thread Dan Podeanu
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, f5ibh wrote: > make[4]: Entre dans le répertoire > `/usr/src/kernel-sources-2.4.5-ac20/drivers/pnp' > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-sources-2.4.5-ac20/include -Wall > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer > -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mp

2.4.5-ac20, make menuconfig problem

2001-06-28 Thread f5ibh
nfigure and which menu you were trying to enter when this error occurred. make: *** [menuconfig] Erreur 1 If I try to compile this kernel with the .config from -ac19, I get the following errors : make[4]: Entre dans le répertoire `/usr/src/kernel-sources-2.4.5-ac20/drivers/pnp' gcc -D__

Re: make menuconfig - cosmetic question

2001-05-17 Thread Martin.Knoblauch
"Martin.Knoblauch" wrote: > > > Not sure whether this is worth to put into the next release - maybe > someone can spend two minutes to crosscheck. > This looks more complete. lx/linux > diff -u scripts/Menuconfig.orig scripts/Menuconfig --- scripts/Menuconfig.orig Thu May 17 17:19:21 2

Re: make menuconfig - cosmetic question

2001-05-17 Thread Martin.Knoblauch
Bjorn Wesen wrote: > > While we're on cosmetics... how about imprisonment for the person who > chose yellow on light grey for the first letters in each option... > > /Bjorn > > On Thu, 17 May 2001, Martin.Knoblauch wrote: > > this is most likely just a small issue. If I knew where to look, I >

Re: make menuconfig - cosmetic question

2001-05-17 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 17 May 2001 16:07:40 +0200, "Martin.Knoblauch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please turn off MIME when sending to linux-kernel, especially those useless vcards at the end of your mail. > When I diff config files pocessed by "make [old]config" a

Re: make menuconfig - cosmetic question

2001-05-17 Thread Bjorn Wesen
While we're on cosmetics... how about imprisonment for the person who chose yellow on light grey for the first letters in each option... /Bjorn On Thu, 17 May 2001, Martin.Knoblauch wrote: > this is most likely just a small issue. If I knew where to look, I > would try to fix it and submit a p

make menuconfig - cosmetic question

2001-05-17 Thread Martin.Knoblauch
Hi, this is most likely just a small issue. If I knew where to look, I would try to fix it and submit a patch :-) When I diff config files pocessed by "make [old]config" and "make menueconfig", it seems that menuconfig is not writing out some of the "comments" that the other versions do write.

Re: make menuconfig versus make xconfig, Kernel 2.4

2001-05-10 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
"Joachim Backes wrote:" > I made an update from Kernel 2.2.19 to 2.4.4, and I made > a copy from the 2.2.19 .config file into the 2.4.4 directory. > > After that, I was wondering about the following fact: > > "make menuconfig" for kernel 2.4.4 showed (what

make menuconfig versus make xconfig, Kernel 2.4

2001-05-10 Thread Joachim Backes
I made an update from Kernel 2.2.19 to 2.4.4, and I made a copy from the 2.2.19 .config file into the 2.4.4 directory. After that, I was wondering about the following fact: "make menuconfig" for kernel 2.4.4 showed (what seems to be correct) for ATA/IDE the same kernel configuration,

2.4.5-pre1 errors with make menuconfig

2001-05-05 Thread f5ibh
Hi! If I do a make distclean then make menuconfig, I get the following error message on the "Processor type and features --->" entry (maybe a bit corrupted because I had to do a ctrl_c to avoid the curses display to owerwrite it). The other entries seems to be ok : scrip

make menuconfig error

2001-04-20 Thread Allen
when I use make menuconfig on the /usr/src/linux directory which linux was symbolic link to /usr/src/linux-2.4.3 , I can see menu , but when I press space or enter key will exit menu and show follow message : Menuconfig has encountered a possible error in one of the kernel's configur

linux-2.4.0: couple typos in 'make menuconfig', also kbd freeze workaround, stuck swapping, etc

2001-01-15 Thread fool
I need to do a 'make menuconfig' even though I don't make any changes in it, or the subsequent 'make dep' fails. Maybe this is well-known, but it struck me as odd. My 700Mhz Duron w/128M ram stalled thrashing once. After 20 mins, I did a ctl-alt-del and it was still swapp

Re: make menuconfig: where's USB Mass Storage?

2001-01-04 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001, Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 02:42:11 -0200, > Fr d ric L . W . Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is this just me? Configuring 2.4.0 with make menuconfig with > >CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y I get no prompt fo

Re: make menuconfig: where's USB Mass Storage?

2001-01-04 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 02:42:11 -0200, Fr d ric L . W . Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is this just me? Configuring 2.4.0 with make menuconfig with >CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y I get no prompt for USB Mass Storage, >but the .config is saved with # CONFIG_USB_STORAGE is not set CONFIG

make menuconfig: where's USB Mass Storage?

2001-01-04 Thread Frédéric L . W . Meunier
Is this just me? Configuring 2.4.0 with make menuconfig with CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y I get no prompt for USB Mass Storage, but the .config is saved with # CONFIG_USB_STORAGE is not set I have the following: # # USB support # CONFIG_USB=m # CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y