On 5.12.2010 17:13, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:42 AM, trapDoor <trapdoor6@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> wrote:
>>> Hi Linus,
>>>
>>> please pull these kbuild/kconfig fixes for the next -rc. The largest
>>> part are fixes for the annoying kconfig warnings, contributed by Arnaud
>>> Lacombe and Mauro Carvalho Chehab. The solution adds a new 'visible if'
>>> keyword to the Kconfig language, so it's not exactly something that one
>>> would expect in the rc phase, but the kconfig change is not huge (the
>>> large diff is due to generated files) and it is deployed only in those
>>> five Kconfig files that had the warnings and were hard to fix by other
>>> means.  The second part is a forgotten patch by Hendrik Brueckner to
>>> usr/initramfs, that fixes build for Blackfin and h8300.
>> Hello,
>> I couldn't wait and I merged the changes into my copy of mainline
>> tree. The merge was successful, no conflicts and the merge-diffstat
>> was exactly the same as above. However, when  running oldconfig on the
>> patched kernel I still get lots of warnings:
>>
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>>
> Technically, this is two warning, though really verbose :)
> 
>>
>> Were these warnings supposed to be fixed by this patch set as well? Or
>> is it something in my config (attached)?
>>
> No. The kconfig language update is meant to be a solution for the +150
> warnings triggered by the media and i2c tree, without making it
> impossible to maintain. The notion of "dependency" was too strong for
> the expected usage.

Yes, sorry for giving false hopes in my mail :-).

Michal
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