From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig'
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:25:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1312997135.2989.54.camel@i7.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110810100130.6adc6c99.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 10:01 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:15:55 -0400 Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>
> > Btw, warning about potential missing dependencies are useless[0],
> > user, even kernel hacker do _not_ read them. We spent a few day
> > tracking down a build failure on powerpc triggered because SND_ISA was
> > selected without ISA_DMA_API, a warning was present, but nobody cared
> > about it.
>
> That one was an anomaly. I usually see them and often send patches
> for them. But granted, most developers just pass over them.
I see that kind of thing as a natural consequence of the whole 'select'
abomination. But that's even *further* off-topic from the original topic
of this thread than Arnaud has already dragged us.
--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
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[not found] <1312067499.22074.59.camel@i7.infradead.org>
2011-07-30 23:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] kconfig: Factor out conf_validate_choice_val() function from conf_read_simple() David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 2:17 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 22:21 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 23:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig' David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 23:44 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 23:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-31 0:05 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 0:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-31 1:06 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 1:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-31 2:09 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 5:21 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 22:18 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-09 15:22 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 7:33 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 16:37 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-07-31 16:57 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 17:08 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-07-31 17:40 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-09 14:14 ` Michal Marek
2011-08-09 15:26 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 12:59 ` Michal Marek
2011-08-10 13:07 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-10 14:15 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 14:17 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-10 14:34 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 16:33 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-10 17:00 ` Emmanuel Deloget
2011-08-10 17:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-10 17:44 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 17:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-10 17:59 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-10 18:40 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 18:52 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-10 22:33 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 23:16 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 3:29 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-11 8:42 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 8:58 ` Michal Marek
2011-08-11 11:10 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 11:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-08-11 11:40 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 11:56 ` Michal Marek
2011-08-11 13:20 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 14:57 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-11 15:07 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 15:24 ` Michal Marek
2011-08-11 15:50 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-10 17:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-08-10 17:25 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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