From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RMS4B-0004uO-IM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:16:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 933F1E0540; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 22:16:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14BE5E050E for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 22:16:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywe9 with SMTP id 9so3747490ywe.40 for ; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:16:00 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.22.164 with SMTP id t24mr23378013yht.67.1320444960415; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:16:00 -0700 (PDT) Sender: lxnay@sabayonlinux.org Received: by 10.236.109.142 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 15:16:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4EB3E1A2.6040702@gentoo.org> <4EB3FAD6.4080203@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 23:16:00 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: eNnYsdLMJRDT_fdCa_JNEuMjCSc Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-info.eclass: check_extra_config requires a configured kernel From: Fabio Erculiani To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6dd506de-7a9c-4d4d-b2bb-4c034d066d47 X-Archives-Hash: 51b73b27647644b170c791d7eb0e96b3 On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrot= e: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 11:02:18PM +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> > The ONLY time that kernel config checks are fatal is when you're >> > building kernel modules, and the module will fail to compile unless >> > there is a .config and suitable options set. >> And that is bad anyway, because it doesn't work as expected when the >> package is merged from tbz2, there are no kernel sources installed and >> multiple kernels are on the same system (and perhaps you are using a >> package manager that properly supports multiple installed kernel >> module packages). > I said when you're building. When you're merging from binpkg, you're not > building... Correct :-) > > -- > Robin Hugh Johnson > Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead > E-Mail =C2=A0 =C2=A0 : robbat2@gentoo.org > GnuPG FP =C2=A0 : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED =C2=A0F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 > > --=20 Fabio Erculiani http://lxnay.com