Re: [PATCH] MIPS: dont specify STACKPROTECTOR in defconfigs

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 03:03:59PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> Only one defconfig has a STACKPROTECTOR value.  And it asks for
> the strong variant, which isn't supported by older toolchains.
> 
> Due to the nature of MIPS having more platform specific code than say
> x86, the allyesconfig and allmodconfig aren't as effective for build
> coverage.  So, in addition, I like to use a trivial script to walk all
> the defconfigs and build each one.
> 
> However I will get false positives on unsupported stackprotector values
> with an older toolchain like gcc-4.6.3.  As in this instance I am just
> using the compiler as a glorified syntax checker on a machine where I
> build a bunch of other arch for the same reason, there is no real
> motivation to get a newer toolchain for improved optimization etc.
> 
> Since there is only one of them, and there is nothing about these
> settings that are board/platform specific, I propose we just eliminate
> the existing instance and take the default.

Yeah, I can see how that one may get annoying.  I wish there was something
along the lines of KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG that was working not only for
allyesconfig/allmodconfig/allnoconfig/randconfig.

Applied.  Thanks,

  Ralf