linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] s390: remove HAVE_MARCH_Z9?0

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Message-ID: <1392628578.10966.28.camel@x220>
Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:16:18 +0100
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>, linux390@...ibm.com,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: remove HAVE_MARCH_Z9?0_FEATURES

On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 10:10 +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 09:50:40AM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > Completeness of what?
> 
> Each cpu generation we support is supposed to have a
> "HAVE_MARCH_<GENERATION>_FEATURES" config symbol.

But apparently these two generations can do fine without it.

> > Anyhow, perhaps you can comment this stuff out if you want to have it in
> > the tree. See, these symbols will pop up each time that people run their
> > scripts to discover problems in the kconfig space. I suppose this was
> > probably not the first time these two were reported. And people not
> > aware of this thread might do that again, and again...
> 
> What script did you use?

A local piece of perl.

It started rather cute but it has grown quite big now. I never let it
leaves its cage. I just push some food between the bars every now and
then.


Paul Bolle

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