From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add config NUMA stub to all architectures
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:12:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F413B8D.5080307@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdUYCGoZoUHWMtMCwAJ2ofweaeLF3U89P5EvrNGcn=6apw@mail.gmail.com>
On 02/19/2012 09:01 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 21:30, Andrew Morton<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:08:15 +0400
>> Konstantin Khlebnikov<khlebnikov@openvz.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Config NUMA must be defined for all architectures,
>>> otherwise IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) does not work.
>>> Some arch-specific Kconfig already has this stub.
>>> This patch adds it to all remaining.
>>
>> It would be better to teach IS_ENABLED() to handle this situation. I
>> don't think there's a way of doing this with cpp :(
>>
>> This limitation makes IS_ENABLED pretty dangerous, doesn't it? It
>> makes it very easy to introduce build breakage with unexpected Kconfig
>> combinations.
>
> Indeed. Recently I discovered IS_ENABLED() and started recommending it
> to people for new code. But now I've seen the CONFIG_NUMA breakage,
> I no longer think this is a good recommendation.
adding Michal & linux-kbuild to cc: list.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-19 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-17 10:20 linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (akpm tree related) Stephen Rothwell
2012-02-17 12:06 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-17 12:08 ` [PATCH] mm: add config NUMA stub to all architectures Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-17 12:45 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-02-17 13:32 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-17 13:44 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-02-17 23:39 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-02-17 20:30 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-19 17:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-02-19 18:12 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2012-02-19 23:21 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2012-02-20 14:24 ` Michal Marek
2012-02-19 23:04 ` linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (akpm tree related) Stephen Rothwell
2012-02-19 23:15 ` Andrew Morton
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