linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (x64 thermal build failure)

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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:21:29 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, len.brown@...el.com,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, michael@...e-electrons.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (x64 thermal build failure)

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:55:02 +0100 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com> wrote:

> Le Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:13:40 -0800,
> Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> a __crit :
> 
> > Option 3 wold be to add more #ifdef CONFIG_DMI lines around the
> > place.  How ugly would that get?
> 
> Like the attached patch. #ifdef CONFIG_DMI everywhere :-(
> 

ug, sorry, if I'd realised it was like this I'd have said "don't bother". 
Apart from the obvious problem, this means that people will keep breaking
CONFIG_DMI=n all the time, because they will forget the ifdefs, and the
number of people who test with CONFIG_DMI=n will be small.


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