From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758680Ab0JHPMX (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2010 11:12:23 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:50510 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757463Ab0JHPMW (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2010 11:12:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 11:12:20 -0400 From: Kyle McMartin To: Michal Marek Cc: Kyle McMartin , 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 Message-ID: <20101008151220.GB24144@bombadil.infradead.org> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CAF30AE.3040305@suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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. regards, Kyle