Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: make oldfonfig broken. | Date | Mon, 10 Feb 2014 04:52:34 -0500 |
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On Monday 10 February 2014, Randy Dunlap wrote: [...] >>>>> Gene, I want to make sure where you are saying the problem is. >>>>> Is it going directly from 3.019 to 3.8.2, with no intervening kernel >>>>> versions? >>>> >>>> No, one intermediate step in this case. >>>> >>>> I started with 3.0.19, which was fine, took that one to 3.2.40, and >>>> that one to 3.8.2 because I don't have anything between those here. >>>> Not exactly a step by step. >>> >>> and when you go from one kernel version to the next, do you use >>> >>> $ make oldconfig >>> and answer all of its questions, or do you use >> >> I generally answer all its questions, or take the default by hitting >> enter, but I do read all its questions. >> >>> $ yes '' | make oldconfig >> >> Never done that in all these years. >> >>> or some other variant? (I guess in your super build script.) >> >> This is long before my "super script" gets fired off. >> >> And that part is actually working well, run it as root, do a >> grub-update and reboot. >> >> Cheers, Gene > >You need to have a Kconfig symbol named DVB_CORE enabled. > >In 3.8.2 (and likely previously, but not in 3.2.40), >DVB_CORE depends on having both MEDIA_SUPPORT and >MEDIA_DIGITAL_TV_SUPPORT enabled. Your .confile file has MEDIA_SUPPORT >enabled but not >MEDIA_DIGITAL_TV_SUPPORT. > >In your 3.2.40 kernel source tree, just edit your .config file and delete >the line that says: ># CONFIG_MEDIA_DIGITAL_TV_SUPPORT is not set > >then run [1] >$ make oldconfig >and it will ask you how to set the Kconfig symbol. Tell it 'y'. > >and if you can find this line in your .config file: >CONFIG_MEDIA_SUBDRV_AUTOSELECT=y > >delete it. Run 'make oldconfig' again if you did so at [1] above. >For this Kconfig question: > Autoselect tuners and i2c modules to build (MEDIA_SUBDRV_AUTOSELECT), >answer N. >Then you can select all of the tuners and frontends that you want. >There are LOTS of them to choose from. > >IIRC, this all happened because someone decided that they could make the >AUTOSELECT driver feature Better! ugh. > >Good luck. Let me know if you need more guidance.
Printed. That sounds as if I ought to be able to do it, which I will take a shot at tomorrow.
Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
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