From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754164Ab1HJRBd (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:01:33 -0400 Received: from oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com ([69.89.22.20]:58704 "HELO oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753171Ab1HJRBc (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:01:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:01:30 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Arnaud Lacombe Cc: David Woodhouse , Michal Marek , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig' Message-Id: <20110810100130.6adc6c99.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: References: <1312067499.22074.59.camel@i7.infradead.org> <1312067670.22074.61.camel@i7.infradead.org> <4E34998D.8060806@zytor.com> <4E4140B3.7090802@suse.cz> <4E4280BA.9050109@suse.cz> <1312981658.2989.39.camel@i7.infradead.org> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {1807:box742.bluehost.com:xenotime:xenotime.net} {sentby:smtp auth 50.53.38.135 authed with rdunlap@xenotime.net} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***