Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932530Ab3EBRcR (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 May 2013 13:32:17 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34190 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757775Ab3EBRcQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 May 2013 13:32:16 -0400 Message-ID: <5182A300.9050603@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 10:31:44 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130311 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Borislav Petkov , David Rientjes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg , levinsasha928@gmail.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, Borislav Petkov , fengguang.wu@intel.com, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/kconfig: Add a Kconfig shortcut for building working KVM guest kernels References: <20130501203500.GC4466@pd.tnic> <20130501211011.GD4466@pd.tnic> <20130501215604.GA15623@pd.tnic> <20130501222850.GB15623@pd.tnic> <20130501230254.GC15623@pd.tnic> <51819F6C.1030201@zytor.com> <20130502070633.GA26361@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130502070633.GA26361@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1268 Lines: 35 On 05/02/2013 12:06 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * H. Peter Anvin 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 majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/