From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 14:19:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] arm: add default value for PHYS_OFFSET Kconfig setting In-Reply-To: <1322711557-8279-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> References: <1322711557-8279-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Message-ID: <201112011419.46751.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thursday 01 December 2011, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > Commit 1b9f95f8ade9efc2bd49f0e7b9dc61a038ac3eef introduced the new > Kconfig for PHYS_OFFSET but it did not specify a default value. > > This has the undesired side effect of breaking an implictly used > trick for updating defconfigs on the fly for routine buildtesting > across all arch and all platforms, i.e. > > cp /path/to/somedefconfig .config ; yes "" | make oldconfig > FWIW, a better way to achieve the above is using make KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=/path/to/somedefconfig listnewconfig alldefconfig which does not have this problem. Your patch looks still ok, but you might want to update your scripts to be more robust. Arnd From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754742Ab1LAOTz (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2011 09:19:55 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:59026 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754691Ab1LAOTx (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2011 09:19:53 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: add default value for PHYS_OFFSET Kconfig setting Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 14:19:46 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/3.2.0-rc1+; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Paul Gortmaker , nicolas.pitre@linaro.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1322711557-8279-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: <1322711557-8279-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201112011419.46751.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:PmKcPNgc2KOLTUbSQrR32DwNAH9N0MXf3rfl59u73kl VY9qUESPus2HSoAQSTCbcUPXEdLPklmsvDsSnqbCS/3yomt8ML eJ5PBs2x5n9YO4Q5C7yEfwE/SrVugJWSQitNy3FJc5OIAY5+Q4 P4qM8c2UnxeRAxFb9MBXVyZxHw82kdPnOn0pa3V4P6k7jIpMPQ vrP+q3A7OgrQdxZReYl1afZlTziGKqPUVRWLP4cAvD60ffrI2D tPftEXv2Rbk8hE/myUp3L1HVFRZuv8E3HukQGCGp/H2J8FWfCU yg6eQXhs31x+/YzHnqjEWe+z612ehRM3hACUm5xA9SD+MUmVrW JIl7WGMg+o5aqOnkMR3M= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 01 December 2011, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > Commit 1b9f95f8ade9efc2bd49f0e7b9dc61a038ac3eef introduced the new > Kconfig for PHYS_OFFSET but it did not specify a default value. > > This has the undesired side effect of breaking an implictly used > trick for updating defconfigs on the fly for routine buildtesting > across all arch and all platforms, i.e. > > cp /path/to/somedefconfig .config ; yes "" | make oldconfig > FWIW, a better way to achieve the above is using make KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=/path/to/somedefconfig listnewconfig alldefconfig which does not have this problem. Your patch looks still ok, but you might want to update your scripts to be more robust. Arnd