Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 May 2013 09:06:33 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/kconfig: Add a Kconfig shortcut for building working KVM guest kernels |
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* 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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