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From: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SGI IA64 UV: fix ia64 build error in the linux-next	tree
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:33:19 -0600
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To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, linux-ia64 <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>, linux-next <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:58:19AM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > What question was that? Folding back across that distance is not possible
> > in a Git workflow. I do regular cross-builds - the build bug did not trigger
> > with the ia64 defconfig.
> 
> I'm confused by this, as it definitely triggered for me.  Perhaps
> my build scripts do things a bit differently.  Essentially I do:
> 
>         $ for c in `ls arch/ia64/configs`
>         > do
>         >       cp arch/ia64/configs/$i .config
>         >       yes '' | make oldconfig
>         >       make
>         > done
> 
> Which takes the default answer for any new questions that crop
> up.  This enabled the GRU driver in the case of the generic_defconfig,
> and so the build failed because of the lack of asm/uv.h

It always triggers for me as well. I also use generic_defconfig and
request the default for any NEW questions.