Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965472AbWKHKbh (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 05:31:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965548AbWKHKbg (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 05:31:36 -0500 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:56547 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965515AbWKHKbf (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 05:31:35 -0500 Message-ID: <4551B1ED.2000405@sgi.com> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:31:09 +0100 From: Jes Sorensen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060527) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Luis_V=E1zquez_Cao?= , Linux Kernel Mailing List , bjorn_helgaas@hp.com, Nick Piggin , Robin Holt , Dean Nelson , Hugh Dickins , Linus Torvalds , linux-ia64 , Tony Luck Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] mspec driver: compile error References: <1162881017.13700.105.camel@sebastian.intellilink.co.jp> <4550609A.7010908@sgi.com> <20061107133512.a49b11e0.akpm@osdl.org> <1162977589.7805.77.camel@sebastian.intellilink.co.jp> <4551A66A.2070506@sgi.com> <1162979130.7805.80.camel@sebastian.intellilink.co.jp> <20061108015618.571242fb.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061108015618.571242fb.akpm@osdl.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1050 Lines: 27 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:45:30 +0900 > Fernando Luis V?zquez Cao wrote: >> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 10:42 +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote: >>> Given that MSPEC is clearly marked as depending on IA64, it seems bogus >>> for i386 allmodconfig to barf over it and the problem should be fixed >>> there instead IMHO. >> Agreed. That is why I asked if that was allmodconfig's expected >> behaviour. Andrew? > > kconfig's `select' isn't very smart. This is one of the reasons why one > should avoid using it. Hmmm, so what do we do? I really don't like the idea that one has to manually select the uncached allocator in order for mspec to be available. Alternatively can move the Kconfig field for MSPEC to arch/ia64/Kconfig, but that seems a bit dodgy too. Cheers, Jes - 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/