Bug#750742: linux 3.14.5-1: FTBFS on armhf due to missing configuration option

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 15:09 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
> Source: linux
> Version: 3.14.5-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Hello,
> 
> linux 3.14.5-1 FTBFS on armhf with "missing module virtio_balloon"
> upon building udebs:
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=linux&arch=armhf&ver=3.14.5-1&stamp=1402001931

This is my fault, I'm going to look at it shortly. Thanks for the
analysis, it'll probably save me some time.

> For arm platforms, config/kernelarch-arm/config sets
> CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON to disabled by default and the
> armhf-specific configs do not not change that, so either
> CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON has to be enabled for armhf or
> virtio_balloon would have to be declared optional in the udeb
> module list.

I'm not aware of a reason not to enable the balloon on ARM, but I'll
have a trawl around the net and the commit logs before I do so...

Ian.