Re: [uml-devel] Default kernel configuration on 2.6.x

[BlaisorBlade <bla...@ya...>]

On Tuesday 12 October 2004 00:22, Julian Scheid wrote:

> This is especially fatal because without a virtual character device
> driver, stdio initialization will fail silently or with an unhelpful
> error message ("sleeping process got unexpected signal 11"), leaving
> unsuspecting users like me completely puzzled.
I.e. that error comes from this?????? Thanks a lot for this solution, but 
could you explain which is exactly the wrong CONFIG_ option set for this to 
happen?

> Therefore I think it would make sense to have the UML patches for the
> affected kernel versions remove the second through fourth element from
> conf_confnames (as shown above) so that the build will immediately fall
> back to arch/um/defconfig if .config isn't found, always ignoring status
> quo configuration files on the host. A corresponding patch for 2.6.8.1
> is attached.

[Please always avoid sending that kind of patches; you **MUST ALWAYS** use 
unified diffs, i.e. diff -u; the preferred setting is -puNr].
> Perhaps a note should be added somewhere pointing out the non-standard
> behavior to avoid confusing seasoned kernel recompilers, but I'm not
> sure where to put it. I'll leave that to the maintainers should you
> agree with the patch.
About this, see the other responses - this must be done in mainline whenever 
we are cross-compiling.

Bye
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Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
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