From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: linux-next: boot test failure (net tree) Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:02:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20110822.210255.1902105215409964106.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20110823114129.ceb18da164bf7df3c145941b@canb.auug.org.au> <20110822.191348.2099822249437201579.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:44707 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750698Ab1HWEHY (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:07:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: lacombar@gmail.com Cc: sfr@canb.auug.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, mikey@neuling.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org From: Arnaud Lacombe Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:50:02 -0400 > Are you implying we need some kind of way to migrate config ? The issue is that the dependencies for every single ethernet driver have changed. Some dependencies have been dropped (f.e. NETDEV_10000 and some have been added (f.e. ETHERNET, NET_VENDOR_****) So right now an automated (non-prompted, default to no on all new options) run on an existing config results in all ethernet drivers getting disabled because the new dependencies don't get enabled. This wouldn't be so bad if it was just one or two drivers, but in this case it's every single ethernet driver which will have and hit this problem.