Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:50:02 -0400 | Subject | Re: linux-next: boot test failure (net tree) | From | Arnaud Lacombe <> |
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Hi,
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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.au> 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 that >>> > 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 changes > 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. Could you prepare a patch which does that? > Are you implying we need some kind of way to migrate config ?
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