Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the ext4 tree

From: Yann E. MORIN
Date: Thu Aug 08 2013 - 15:17:05 EST


Stephen, All,

On 2013-08-08 10:36 +1000, Stephen Rothwell spake thusly:
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 10:22:28 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > More quick testing with an empty file: v3.9 is OK, v3.10 gives
> > CONFIG_MODULES unset.

Sorry, I don't understand the above. Can you elaborate on what you did,
what you got, what expected, so I can try to reproduce and fix this,
please?

> Bisecting gives:
>
> cfa98f2e0ae956feca935573e977d7661a9561b9 is the first bad commit
> commit cfa98f2e0ae956feca935573e977d7661a9561b9
> Author: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Apr 24 22:00:04 2013 +0200
>
> kconfig: do not override symbols already set
>
> For randconfig, if a list of required symbols is specified with
> KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG, such symbols do not "have a value" as per
> sym_has_value(), but have the "valid" flag set.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@xxxxxxx>
>
> And reverting that commit in v3.10 gives me CONFIG_MODULES=y.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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