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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add config NUMA stub to all architectures
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:01:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdUYCGoZoUHWMtMCwAJ2ofweaeLF3U89P5EvrNGcn=6apw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120217123037.ecfc5dd9.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 21:30, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:08:15 +0400
> Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> wrote:
>
>> Config NUMA must be defined for all architectures,
>> otherwise IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) does not work.
>> Some arch-specific Kconfig already has this stub.
>> This patch adds it to all remaining.
>
> It would be better to teach IS_ENABLED() to handle this situation.  I
> don't think there's a way of doing this with cpp :(
>
> This limitation makes IS_ENABLED pretty dangerous, doesn't it?  It
> makes it very easy to introduce build breakage with unexpected Kconfig
> combinations.

Indeed. Recently I discovered IS_ENABLED() and started recommending it
to people for new code. But now I've seen the CONFIG_NUMA breakage,
I no longer think this is a good recommendation.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-19 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-17 10:20 linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (akpm tree related) Stephen Rothwell
2012-02-17 12:06 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-17 12:08   ` [PATCH] mm: add config NUMA stub to all architectures Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-17 12:45     ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-02-17 13:32       ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-17 13:44         ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-02-17 23:39           ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-02-17 20:30     ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-19 17:01       ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2012-02-19 18:12         ` Randy Dunlap
2012-02-19 23:21           ` Arnaud Lacombe
2012-02-20 14:24             ` Michal Marek
2012-02-19 23:04 ` linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (akpm tree related) Stephen Rothwell
2012-02-19 23:15   ` Andrew Morton

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