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Date:	Thu, 2 Dec 2010 16:57:14 -0500
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bridge netpoll support: mismatch between net core and bridge headers

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:51, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
>> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 19:33, David Miller wrote:
>>> Attached.  Also please provide one of the failing ".config" files,
>>> and please test if simply going "make oldconfig" unbreaks things.
>>> It may be that randconfig allows configurations that the config
>>> system normally does not allow.
>>
>> hrm, so your patch does fix things.  the downside is that it might be
>> caused by kgdboe (which isnt in mainline yet).  that's the only
>> randconfig i can find so far to cause the issue.
>
> If that's the case you just need to check and make sure that kgdboe
> handles dependencies properly in it's Kconfig changes.
>
> I suspect that simply adding kgdboe as a new "or" case to the
> "def_bool" statement of NETPOLL in driver/net/Kconfig will fix the
> problem.
>
> If kgdboe is using "select" to handle these dependencies, that's the
> bug.

it is using select to enable reverse depends.  i'll look at sending a
fix as you suggest to the kgdb devs.  thanks !
-mike
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