From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com (cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com [217.140.96.50]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A37B6F07 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:24:42 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Kconfig: Enable Kconfig fragments to be used for defconfig From: Catalin Marinas To: Grant Likely In-Reply-To: <20100713230352.6781.18644.stgit@angua> References: <20100713230352.6781.18644.stgit@angua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:03:41 +0100 Message-ID: <1279296221.17878.66.camel@e102109-lin.cambridge.arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: Daniel Walker , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Tony Lindgren , Nicolas Pitre , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Russell King , Uwe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 00:04 +0100, Grant Likely wrote: > - It still doesn't resolve dependencies. A solver would help with this. > For the time being I work around the problem by running the generated > config through 'oldconfig' and looking for differences. If the files > differ (ignoring comments and generateconfig_* options) after oldconfig, > then the _defconfig target returns a failure. (but leaves the > new .config intact so the user can resolve it with menuconfig). This > way at least the user is told when a Kconfig fragment is invalid. It's not a solver but I'm pushing a patch to warn on selecting symbols with unmet dependencies so that you can select further symbols (manual solving). The patch is in linux-next but you also can grab it from: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-2.6-cm.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=5d87db2d2a332784bbf2b1ec3e141486f4d41d6f -- Catalin