From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760490Ab0JITil (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:38:41 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:34907 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756793Ab0JITik (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:38:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4CB0C49A.7020900@suse.cz> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 21:38:02 +0200 From: Michal Marek User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; cs-CZ; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100714 SUSE/3.0.6 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kyle McMartin Cc: Sam Ravnborg , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, aris@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: fix oldnoconfig to do the right thing References: <20100901152130.GY2684@bombadil.infradead.org> <20100905061758.GA29547@merkur.ravnborg.org> <20100908115553.GC2617@sepie.suse.cz> <20101008143642.GA24144@bombadil.infradead.org> <4CAF30AE.3040305@suse.cz> <20101008151220.GB24144@bombadil.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20101008151220.GB24144@bombadil.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 8.10.2010 17:12, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 04:54:38PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote: >> Oh, sorry, I didn't realize that this is a regression from 2.6.35 and >> applied it to the kconfig branch, which is part of for-next. I'll try to >> send a pull request with this patch and two other later today, but I >> don't know if Linus is going to accept it. >> > > It's not a regression from .35, just trying to avoid unexpected changes Yeah, I meant "bug introduced in 2.6.36-rc1". > to how parts of the build system work after release (which means it > could be perceived as a regression from .36 to .37) > > IE: Someone begins to expect this behaviour in 2.6.36, and then > the patch goes into 2.6.37-rc1, so 2.6.37 behaves differently. I see. Michal