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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:21:26 -0500 From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com> To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add config NUMA stub to all architectures Hi, On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> wrote: > On 02/19/2012 09:01 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> >> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 21:30, Andrew Morton<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:08:15 +0400 >>> Konstantin Khlebnikov<khlebnikov@...nvz.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Config NUMA must be defined for all architectures, >>>> otherwise IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) does not work. >>>> Some arch-specific Kconfig already has this stub. >>>> This patch adds it to all remaining. >>> >>> >>> It would be better to teach IS_ENABLED() to handle this situation. I >>> don't think there's a way of doing this with cpp :( >>> >>> This limitation makes IS_ENABLED pretty dangerous, doesn't it? It >>> makes it very easy to introduce build breakage with unexpected Kconfig >>> combinations. >> >> >> Indeed. Recently I discovered IS_ENABLED() and started recommending it >> to people for new code. But now I've seen the CONFIG_NUMA breakage, >> I no longer think this is a good recommendation. > > adding Michal & linux-kbuild to cc: list. > I do not really see any way to fix this, beside having a unique architecture-wide configuration namespace :/ - Arnaud -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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