On 05/02/2013 12:06 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote: > >> On 05/01/2013 04:02 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: >>> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 03:37:28PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: >>>> It means your patch is incomplete. >>> >>> I'll gladly test and ack a patch which makes it complete. >>> >>> Simple exercises in rhetoric about what does and what doesn't make >>> sense means a rat's ass to me. You need to show me a *real* use case >>> which you *actually* hit and this patch breaks it. >> >> The fundamental problem is that "select" is broken and doesn't track >> dependencies of things selected. > > The way I've been solving it in a similar usecase was to select the > required options - plus its dependencies, manually. > > That should be possible here as well, driven by any weird randconfig build > failures that get found. Such a set of selects quickly converges. >
The problem is that it is a moving target. We really need a dependency-resolving version of select. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/