Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755340AbXIFKV3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 06:21:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751058AbXIFKVV (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 06:21:21 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:44293 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751019AbXIFKVV (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 06:21:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:04:28 +0530 (IST) From: Satyam Sharma X-X-Sender: satyam@enigma.security.iitk.ac.in To: David Woodhouse cc: Michal Piotrowski , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , LKML , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [2/2] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions with patches In-Reply-To: <1189072799.2745.68.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <46DBDCF4.6040805@googlemail.com> <46DBDDC6.9030602@googlemail.com> <1189072799.2745.68.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1190 Lines: 30 On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: > > This isn't really a regression -- it's been like this for years. It's a > non-functional configuration which doesn't really make sense, and would > only crop up with randconfig (or crack). > > Linus was offered the patch a few weeks ago, but didn't take it -- it's > not really a priority for 2.6.23. It's in my git tree and will be pushed > when the 2.6.24 merge window opens. > > http://git.infradead.org/?p=mtd-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=241651d04d672fb685b2874707016cbbf95931e5 You shouldn't push this even for 2.6.24 ... I can't see why/how a runtime BUG() scores over erroring out at build-time itself. And if there is no codepath that leads to that BUG() at runtime, then what's the point of adding dead code ... So I wonder if what you're actually looking for is some kind of Kconfig dependencies that will *prevent* the kind of .config from being generated that Ingo ran into ? Satyam - 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/