linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for Nov 3 (KVMTOOL_TEST

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Date:	Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:34:50 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
CC:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Nov 3 (KVMTOOL_TEST_ENABLE)

On 11/04/2011 01:03 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> wrote:
>> On 11/03/2011 05:43 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> On 11/02/2011 11:20 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>> When KVMTOOL_TEST_ENABLE is enabled but CONFIG_BLOCK is not enabled, there are
>>> MANY build errors.  This one (case) is probably fixed by adding "select BLOCK", but it's
>>> all rather ugly.
>>
>> kconfig even tells us:
>>
>> warning: (KVMTOOL_TEST_ENABLE) selects KGDB which has unmet direct dependencies (HAVE_ARCH_KGDB && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL)
>> warning: (KVMTOOL_TEST_ENABLE) selects BLK_DEV which has unmet direct dependencies (BLOCK)
> 
> Sasha, I guess your patch fixes this? Can you send me a version that
> doesn't add the oldconfig magic that Ingo objected to?


Here is more of the twisty maze (from linux-next 2011-1107):

warning: (KVMTOOL_TEST_ENABLE && AMD_IOMMU) selects PCI_MSI which has unmet direct dependencies (PCI && ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI)
warning: (KVMTOOL_TEST_ENABLE) selects KGDB which has unmet direct dependencies (HAVE_ARCH_KGDB && DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL)


-- 
~Randy
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