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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.35-rc6] kconfig: fix MODULES-related bug in case of no .config
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:57:43PM +0200, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:27:27PM +0200, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There seems to be a kconfig bug due to MODULES not always being evaluated if no
>> .config is found. Take the following Kconfig as an example:
>>
>> config MODULES
>> def_bool y
>>
>> config FOO
>> def_tristate m
>>
>> With no .config, the following configuration is generated:
>>
>> CONFIG_MODULES=y
>> CONFIG_FOO=y
>>
>> With an empty .config, the following:
>>
>> CONFIG_MODULES=y
>> CONFIG_FOO=m
>>
>> Tristate choice statements can also exhibit the problem, due to having an
>> implicit rev_dep (select) containing "m".
>>
>> The problem is that MODULES is never evaluted in conf_read_simple() unless
>> there's a .config. The following patch fixes this.

<snip>

>
>Silly error in the patch. The correct patch follows.
>
>Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer.lkml@gmail.com>
>

Sounds good for me.

Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>


>diff -uNr linux.vanilla/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c linux.new/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
>--- linux.vanilla/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c 2010-07-27 16:47:43.443006287 +0200
>+++ linux.new/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c 2010-07-27 21:48:07.471550551 +0200
>@@ -170,8 +170,11 @@
> if (in)
> goto load;
> sym_add_change_count(1);
>- if (!sym_defconfig_list)
>+ if (!sym_defconfig_list) {
>+ if (modules_sym)
>+ sym_calc_value(modules_sym);
> return 1;
>+ }
>
> for_all_defaults(sym_defconfig_list, prop) {
> if (expr_calc_value(prop->visible.expr) == no ||
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