Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 01:09:01 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
        levinsasha928@gmail.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, fengguang.wu@intel.com,
        linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/kconfig:  Add a Kconfig shortcut for
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On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 04:04:12PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The fundamental problem is that "select" is broken and doesn't track
> dependencies of things selected.

Yep, ancient history.

And yet, I'm using this option to do randconfig builds and then boot
them and I see almost no build breakages, at least none caused by this
Kconfig option.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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