netdev - Re: linux-next: boot test failure (net tree)

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Date:	Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:26:56 -0700
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	"sfr@...b.auug.org.au" <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"mikey@...ling.org" <mikey@...ling.org>,
	"torvalds@...ux-foundation.org" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	"benh@...nel.crashing.org" <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"paulus@...ba.org" <paulus@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: boot test failure (net tree)

On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 19:13 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:41:29 +1000
> 
> > On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:40:11 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:30:32 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.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?
> 

I was just finishing up those patches (not including any defconfig
changes) and started looking at a patch to fix/resolve the issues that
Stephen is seeing.

Let me see what I can come up with tonight to resolve this.

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