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    SubjectRe: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/kconfig: Add a Kconfig shortcut for building working KVM guest kernels

    * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

    > On 05/01/2013 04:02 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
    > > On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 03:37:28PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
    > >> It means your patch is incomplete.
    > >
    > > I'll gladly test and ack a patch which makes it complete.
    > >
    > > Simple exercises in rhetoric about what does and what doesn't make
    > > sense means a rat's ass to me. You need to show me a *real* use case
    > > which you *actually* hit and this patch breaks it.
    >
    > The fundamental problem is that "select" is broken and doesn't track
    > dependencies of things selected.

    The way I've been solving it in a similar usecase was to select the
    required options - plus its dependencies, manually.

    That should be possible here as well, driven by any weird randconfig build
    failures that get found. Such a set of selects quickly converges.

    Thanks,

    Ingo


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