Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/kconfig: Add a Kconfig shortcut for buildingworking KVM guest kernels

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 05/02/2013 12:06 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> 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


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