linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "kconfig: Temporarily disable dependency warnings"

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Message-Id: <20101121174456.c6f77f56.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:44:56 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, catalin.marinas@....com,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lacombar@...il.com,
	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert
 "kconfig: Temporarily disable dependency warnings"

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:48:01 +1100 Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:37:31 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:19:46 +0200 Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz> wrote:
> > >
> > > This reverts commit 71ebc01, which was a 2.6.36-only stopgap solution.
> > 
> > I was hoping that we would have the number of these warnings down to
> > something reasonable before this revert made it into Linus' tree ...
> > 
> > I guess fixing the V4L stuff will become a bit more urgent, now :-)
> 
> Is there any chance that the V4L kconfig warnings will be fixed?  It is
> quite irritating for those of us who do allmodconfig (and allyesconfig)
> builds ...

Yes, the MEDIA kconfig warnings are irritating.
I just use "grep -v MEDIA" to ignore them.  :)

I haven't seen any email from Michal for more than one week.
Hopefully he will be back soon.

There are patches from Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
to introduce a VISIBLE property for kconfig symbols (this fixes the
MEDIA kconfig warnings), but Michal has not commented on them.

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~Randy
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