Patch "kconfig: tinyconfig: provide whole choice blocks to avoid warnings" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    kconfig: tinyconfig: provide whole choice blocks to avoid warnings

to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     kconfig-tinyconfig-provide-whole-choice-blocks-to-avoid-warnings.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 236dec051078a8691950f56949612b4b74107e48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 16:14:47 -0700
Subject: kconfig: tinyconfig: provide whole choice blocks to avoid warnings

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

commit 236dec051078a8691950f56949612b4b74107e48 upstream.

Using "make tinyconfig" produces a couple of annoying warnings that show
up for build test machines all the time:

    .config:966:warning: override: NOHIGHMEM changes choice state
    .config:965:warning: override: SLOB changes choice state
    .config:963:warning: override: KERNEL_XZ changes choice state
    .config:962:warning: override: CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE changes choice state
    .config:933:warning: override: SLOB changes choice state
    .config:930:warning: override: CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE changes choice state
    .config:870:warning: override: SLOB changes choice state
    .config:868:warning: override: KERNEL_XZ changes choice state
    .config:867:warning: override: CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE changes choice state

I've made a previous attempt at fixing them and we discussed a number of
alternatives.

I tried changing the Makefile to use "merge_config.sh -n
$(fragment-list)" but couldn't get that to work properly.

This is yet another approach, based on the observation that we do want
to see a warning for conflicting 'choice' options, and that we can
simply make them non-conflicting by listing all other options as
disabled.  This is a trivial patch that we can apply independent of
plans for other changes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160829214952.1334674-2-arnd@arndb.de
Link: https://storage.kernelci.org/mainline/v4.7-rc6/x86-tinyconfig/build.log
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9212749/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/configs/tiny.config |    2 ++
 kernel/configs/tiny.config   |    8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/configs/tiny.config
+++ b/arch/x86/configs/tiny.config
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
+# CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set
+# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
--- a/kernel/configs/tiny.config
+++ b/kernel/configs/tiny.config
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
+# CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE is not set
 CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
+# CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP is not set
+# CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 is not set
+# CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA is not set
 CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ=y
+# CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO is not set
+# CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4 is not set
 CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y
+# CONFIG_SLAB is not set
+# CONFIG_SLUB is not set
 CONFIG_SLOB=y


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@arndb.de are

queue-4.7/kconfig-tinyconfig-provide-whole-choice-blocks-to-avoid-warnings.patch