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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	peterz@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>,
	Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>,
	John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Let AS_WRUSS depend on X86_64
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:10:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c9f43a23-9202-41f3-b8fb-bf48f74e8a1e@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231031140504.GCZUEJkMPXSrEDh3MA@fat_crate.local>

On 31. 10. 23, 15:05, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 02:59:39PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> As I wrote, we have a config which maintainers feed through oldconfig when
>> updating the kernel. This time we got WRUSS=y. It was stored in git and
>> later passed to build the kernel. And we received a different config from
>> the build (WRUSS=n).
>>
>> We diff the two and error out if the built kernel differs from the passed
>> configuration. Which is the case here.
> 
> I sure hope that diffing script can ignore Kconfig items.

Definitely, I can add an ignore on that level.

> Because this
> doesn't sound like a reason to "fix" the upstream kernel and as Masahiro
> says, it doesn't change anything anyway.

It changes what's in .config and corresponds 1:1 to what is used during 
the build.

Now, I have a .config from "make oldconfig". But "make all" will read it 
and flips the value. (That is IMHO misleading, but I can live with that, 
provided I now know. Not sure about others though.)

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs


  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-31 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-31 10:21 [PATCH] x86: Let AS_WRUSS depend on X86_64 Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2023-10-31 11:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2023-10-31 12:20   ` Masahiro Yamada
2023-10-31 13:34     ` Borislav Petkov
2023-10-31 13:59       ` Jiri Slaby
2023-10-31 14:05         ` Borislav Petkov
2023-10-31 14:10           ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2023-10-31 13:53 ` Dave Hansen
2023-10-31 14:04   ` Jiri Slaby

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