Re: linux-next: boot test failure (net tree)

Stephen Rothwell
2011-08-18T05:22:24Z

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Hi Dave,

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:50:02 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:15:25 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> >
> > From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> > Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:01:46 +1000
> >
> > > In particular, CONFIG_TIGON3 newly depends on
> > > CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_BROADCOM which will no be selected when doing a
> > > "make oldconfig" from a working config.
> >
> > When you type "make oldconfig" with an existing .config it prompts you
> > for those vendor guards, giving you ample opportunity to say yes to
> > them.
>
> Which is a bit of a pain for automated systems. Ours does (essentially):
>
> yes '' | make oldconfig
>
> We really don't want to select every new config item that comes along.

So, Mikey did a test for me (he was bitten by this today). Just one of
the powerpc configs (pseries_defconfig which should, in theory, build a
kernel that will boot on almost all our POWER server machines) loses all
these drivers if you do a "make pseries_defconfig":

-CONFIG_IBMVETH=y
-CONFIG_PCNET32=y
-CONFIG_E100=y
-CONFIG_ACENIC=m
-CONFIG_ACENIC_OMIT_TIGON_I=y
-CONFIG_E1000=y
-CONFIG_E1000E=y
-CONFIG_BNX2=m
-CONFIG_CHELSIO_T3=m
-CONFIG_CHELSIO_T4=m
-CONFIG_IXGBE=m
-CONFIG_IXGB=m
-CONFIG_S2IO=m
-CONFIG_MYRI10GE=m
-CONFIG_NETXEN_NIC=m
-CONFIG_QLGE=m
-CONFIG_BE2NET=m

That is just one of our deconfigs ... there are over 400 defconfigs in
the kernel and a lot of them will need to be updated.

Mikey asks: Will Dave take these updates if we get Acks from the
maintainers? :-)

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au

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