From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: sfr@canb.auug.org.au, mikey@neuling.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org,
jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: boot test failure (net tree)
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:50:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACqU3MW4BnucRt3gxPrKPDvWEjaVuxRF1VOPWk5hTRfneyANkg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110822.191348.2099822249437201579.davem@davemloft.net>
Hi,
[Added linux-kbuild@ to the Cc: list.]
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:13 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:41:29 +1000
>
>> On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:40:11 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.a=
u> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:30:32 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.=
au> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Here's what I am applying as a merge fixup to the net tree today so t=
hat
>>> > my ppc64_defconfig builds actually build more or less the same set 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 chan=
ges
> through the networking tree is evidence of how it's really not reasonable
> to be doing things this way.
>
> Jeff, I think we need to revert the dependencies back to what they were
> before the drivers/net moves. =A0Could you prepare a patch which does tha=
t?
>
Are you implying we need some kind of way to migrate config ?
- Arnaud
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-23 3:50 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20110817.225356.1790362313048139752.davem@davemloft.net>
2011-08-22 1:30 ` linux-next: boot test failure (net tree) Stephen Rothwell
2011-08-23 1:40 ` Stephen Rothwell
2011-08-23 1:41 ` Stephen Rothwell
2011-08-23 2:13 ` David Miller
2011-08-23 2:26 ` Jeff Kirsher
2011-08-23 3:50 ` Arnaud Lacombe [this message]
2011-08-23 4:02 ` David Miller
2011-08-23 8:29 ` Jeff Kirsher
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