Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932279AbbEVHlq (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2015 03:41:46 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:39204 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756452AbbEVHlk (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2015 03:41:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 09:41:36 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Greg KH , "David S. Miller" , clemens@ladisch.de, Dmitry Torokhov , JBottomley@odin.com, David Airlie , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Herbert Xu , Marcel Holtmann , "Gustavo F. Padovan" , Johan Hedberg , Mikael Starvik , Jesper Nilsson , Imre Kaloz , khalasa@piap.pl, ohad@wizery.com, Arnd Bergmann , 3chas3@gmail.com, Jiri Slaby , Bryan Wu , Richard Purdie , Jacek Anaszewski , Paul Bolle , Takashi Iwai , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [RFC v1] tree-wide: remove "select FW_LOADER" uses Message-ID: <20150522074136.GB23022@pd.tnic> References: <1432241149-8762-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <20150521222129.GI3689@pd.tnic> <20150522065346.GA23022@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1473 Lines: 45 On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 09:11:34AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > That's what the EXPERT protection is for. > FW_LOADER will always be enabled, unless people think they're smarter > than they are, and enable EXPERT, and disable FW_LOADER. I know. I was just making the negative aspect of "depends" vs "select" in that particular case, explicit. Just so that it is mentioned in the conversation. > If you want to boot randconfig kernels, create an allrandomconfig file > listing all options that must have a certain value: > > $ cat allrandomconfig > CONFIG_EXPERT=n > CONFIG_MY_CRITICAL_FEATURE=y > ... > $ > > and use "make randconfig KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=1". I do that but does everyone who builds randconfigs? I had to go and look what variables Kbuild honors and prep an all.config and yadda yadda... So maybe we should put that as a note somewhere for randconfig-building people. > You trimmed too much, so I had to readd it manually ;-) Yeah, that's what mail threads are for. People tend to reply to a huuge mail with one sentence, bury it somewhere on page gazillion and one and not trim the rest. Antisocial behavior, that. :-P -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. -- -- 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/