On Wed, 8 Apr 2020, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've just restarted doing randconfig builds on top of mainline Linux and > found a couple of regressions with missing dependency from the recent > change in the "imply" keyword in Kconfig, presumably these two patches: > > 3a9dd3ecb207 kconfig: make 'imply' obey the direct dependency > def2fbffe62c kconfig: allow symbols implied by y to become m > > I have created workarounds for the Kconfig files, which now stop using > imply and do something else in each case. I don't know whether there was > a bug in the kconfig changes that has led to allowing configurations that > were not meant to be legal even with the new semantics, or if the Kconfig > files have simply become incorrect now and the tool works as expected. In most cases it is the code that has to be fixed. It typically does: if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FOO)) foo_init(); Where it should rather do: if (IS_REACHABLE(CONFIG_FOO)) foo_init(); A couple of such patches have been produced and queued in their respective trees already. Nicolas _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
