Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues
- To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
- Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>, Ubuntu Kernel Team <kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com>, Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>, OpenSUSE Kernel Team <opensuse-kernel@opensuse.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@fedoraproject.org>
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues
- From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:55:36 +0200
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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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