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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:25:33 +0100 From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> Cc: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig' 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@...el.com Intel Corporation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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