linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

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Message-ID: <1342724136.26179.44.camel@x61.thuisdomein>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:55:36 +0200
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>,
	Ubuntu Kernel Team <kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com>,
	Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org>,
	OpenSUSE Kernel Team <opensuse-kernel@...nsuse.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@...oraproject.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 20:49 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > I believe Alan was more correct than me when he said it was 'make
> > oldconfig' that produced the warnings.
> 
> Kconfig does spit out warnings for selecting things with unmet dependencies.
> But does anyone care?
> 
> [...checking logs...]
> 
> Oh, only 12 warnings in the v3.5-rc7 builds. Not that bad as my gut feeling
> said...

Well, that's yet another issue but anyhow. That number of warnings
should presumably drop to (almost) zero if those weren't warnings but
errors. Has that ever been tried?


Paul Bolle

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