Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:18:00 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: on builds/randconfigs (was: [PATCH -next] thermal: depends on NET) |
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:35:10 -0500 (EST) Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> wrote:
> Do I care about the phantom configs that would be possible > if these false dependencies were not in place. No, > not until somebody invents such a system, > and may be not even then. > > Is there a user out there on LKML who can dream up > a use for one of these phantom configs and claim that > his life will end if he'd prevented from building it? > Sure. Does he suffer from a total lack of perspective? > Yes.
These unusable config combinations should be prevented via Kconfig. That prevents users from selecting them, which otherwise adds to our workload and to theirs. It also prevents false-positives during our useful randconfig testing.
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