Re: [patch, -git] isdn: hysdn_procconf.c build fix

Denis V. Lunev
2008-04-30T19:03:50Z

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 11:47 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:30:51 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> >
> > * Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:57:40 +0200
> > > Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ob'grumpy: this file was not even build-tested by any of the parties
> > > > who turned it into upstream commit ac41cfd19b ("isdn: use non-racy
> > > > method for proc entries creation").
> > >
> > > That's because this stupidity:
> > >
> > > config HYSDN
> > > tristate "Hypercope HYSDN cards (Champ, Ergo, Metro) support (module only)"
> > > depends on m && PROC_FS && PCI && BROKEN_ON_SMP
> > >
> > > breaks allmodconfig coverage testing.
> >
> > yeah. There's a trick though that we use in the x86 tree (and which i'm
> > using in a script when queuing up new patches). The following command
> > will punch through any Kconfig black holes:
> >
> > make drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_procconf.o
>
> That's daft, sorry. We shouldn't expect everyone to do stuff like that.
>
> > (it wont always work as it needs a halfways reasonable .config, but it
> > works well enough to be part of my workflow.)
> >
> > note that there's tons more stuff and dependencies that plain
> > allmodconfig does not catch - in this merge window alone i'm at around
> > 20 fixes so far.
>
> allmodconfig is for one thing and one thing only: compilation coverage
> testing. If there is anything which is not compiled after `make
> allmodconfig' then that's a bug.
>
> But how to fix it? Perhaps we need to add a CONFIG_ALLFOOCONFIG which can
> be tested at the appropriate places.

I think that the same should be applied to allyesconfig