From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaud Lacombe Subject: Re: linux-next: boot test failure (net tree) Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:50:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20110822113032.15087c2e190e2b0c3ee7dfb8@canb.auug.org.au> <20110823114011.a059aea0138b75bfa7eed1ce@canb.auug.org.au> <20110823114129.ceb18da164bf7df3c145941b@canb.auug.org.au> <20110822.191348.2099822249437201579.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: sfr@canb.auug.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, mikey@neuling.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110822.191348.2099822249437201579.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi, [Added linux-kbuild@ to the Cc: list.] On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:13 PM, David Miller wr= ote: > From: Stephen Rothwell > Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:41:29 +1000 > >> On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:40:11 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:30:32 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote: >>> > >>> > Here's what I am applying as a merge fixup to the net tree today = so that >>> > my ppc64_defconfig builds actually build more or less the same se= t of >>> > drivers as before this rearrangement. >>> >>> And this today: >> >> And this: > > I'm starting to get uncomfortable with this whole situation, and I > feel more and more that these new kconfig guards are not tenable. > > Changing defconfig files might fix the "automated test boot with > defconfig" case but it won't fix the case of someone trying to > automate a build and boot using a different, existing, config file. > It ought to work too, and I do know people really do this. > > And just the fact that we would have to merge all of these defconfig = changes > through the networking tree is evidence of how it's really not reason= able > to be doing things this way. > > Jeff, I think we need to revert the dependencies back to what they we= re > before the drivers/net moves. =A0Could you prepare a patch which does= that? > Are you implying we need some kind of way to migrate config ? - Arnaud -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html