linux-kernel - Re: Warnings from silentoldconfig (Re: [GIT PULL] PCI updates for v3.11)

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Date:	Mon, 5 Aug 2013 11:26:21 +0200
From:	"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@...e.fr>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"linux-kbuild" <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Warnings from silentoldconfig (Re: [GIT PULL] PCI updates for v3.11)

Michal, All,

On Monday 05 August 2013 10:39:43 Michal Marek wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 01:28:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yinghai is still working on another SR-IOV-related fix or two, which
> > > will be simpler if pciehp is non-modular, so I included the Kconfig
> > > changes now to get them in earlier.
> > 
> > Hmm. Doing a trivial "make allmoconfig" for testing, I get
> > 
> >   include/config/auto.conf:3014:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for
> > HOTPLUG_PCI_PCIE
> >   include/config/auto.conf:4711:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for
> > HOTPLUG_PCI
> > 
> > but that may be a build system issue with stale data from the
> > *previous* "make allmodconfig". Regardless, that makes me worried.
> > 
> > Adding Michal Marek to the discussion. I'm currently doing a new "make
> > allmodconfig" after having done a "git clean -dqfx" to see if the
> > error remains. If it does, I will unpull. If it is gone, I'm going to
> > assume the Kconfig changes are ok, but that our build system is
> > missing some dependency.
> 
> Added Yann and the linux-kbuild list to CC. Reproducer:
> 
>   git checkout 1fe0135
>   make mrproper
>   make allmodconfig
>   make silentoldconfig
>   git checkout aa8032b
>   make allmodconfig
>   make silentoldconfig
> 
> conf_write_autoconf() first calls conf_split_config() to generate the
> include/config/**.h hierarchy, then generates include/config/auto.conf.
> For some reason, conf_split_config() reads include/config/auto.conf,
> which may not exist yet or may be out of date. Yann, can anything break
> if we simply do not read that file from conf_split_config(), like this?

Sorry, that's a part I'm not sure about, and seems non-trivial.
I'll look at it tonight (UTC+2) when I'm back home.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> index c55c227..8c90835 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> @@ -829,16 +829,12 @@ next:
>  
>  static int conf_split_config(void)
>  {
> -	const char *name;
>  	char path[PATH_MAX+1];
>  	char *s, *d, c;
>  	struct symbol *sym;
>  	struct stat sb;
>  	int res, i, fd;
>  
> -	name = conf_get_autoconfig_name();
> -	conf_read_simple(name, S_DEF_AUTO);
> -
>  	if (chdir("include/config"))
>  		return 1;
>  
> Thanks,
> Michal
> 

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