Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757043Ab1EaPtK (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2011 11:49:10 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:51308 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753098Ab1EaPtI (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2011 11:49:08 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig' From: David Woodhouse To: Arnaud Lacombe Cc: "Ted Ts'o" , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 16:48:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1306707270.2029.377.camel@i7.infradead.org> <20110530072300.GA9802@elte.hu> <1306745835.2029.389.camel@i7.infradead.org> <20110530104231.GF17821@elte.hu> <20110530104656.GA19532@elte.hu> <20110530105809.GA20133@elte.hu> <1A4DB87D-9B32-44C0-B7C9-47A003CABD96@mit.edu> <20110530195545.GG2890@dhcp-172-31-194-241.cam.corp.google.com> <1306795186.2029.459.camel@i7.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.1 (3.0.1-1.fc15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1306856937.27477.3.camel@i7.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 757 Lines: 17 On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 20:24 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > It would seem that the underlying symbol is not visible, triggering > the failure of sym_set_tristate_value(). Yes, this only lets you set *visible* symbols. If the symbol you're interested in is not visible because some of its dependencies are not set, it doesn't go and automatically enable those. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation -- 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/