From: Ulf Magnusson on
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:27:27PM +0200, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There seems to be a kconfig bug due to MODULES not always being evaluated if no
> .config is found. Take the following Kconfig as an example:
>
> config MODULES
> def_bool y
>
> config FOO
> def_tristate m
>
> With no .config, the following configuration is generated:
>
> CONFIG_MODULES=y
> CONFIG_FOO=y
>
> With an empty .config, the following:
>
> CONFIG_MODULES=y
> CONFIG_FOO=m
>
> Tristate choice statements can also exhibit the problem, due to having an
> implicit rev_dep (select) containing "m".
>
> The problem is that MODULES is never evaluted in conf_read_simple() unless
> there's a .config. The following patch fixes this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer.lkml(a)gmail.com>
>
> diff -uNr linux.vanilla/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c linux.new/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> --- linux.vanilla/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c 2010-07-27 16:47:43.443006287 +0200
> +++ linux.new/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c 2010-07-27 16:50:19.795005537 +0200
> @@ -170,8 +170,10 @@
> if (in)
> goto load;
> sym_add_change_count(1);
> - if (!sym_defconfig_list)
> + if (!sym_defconfig_list) {
> + sym_calc_value(modules_sym);
> return 1;
> + }
>
> for_all_defaults(sym_defconfig_list, prop) {
> if (expr_calc_value(prop->visible.expr) == no ||

Silly error in the patch. The correct patch follows.

Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer.lkml(a)gmail.com>

diff -uNr linux.vanilla/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c linux.new/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
--- linux.vanilla/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c 2010-07-27 16:47:43.443006287 +0200
+++ linux.new/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c 2010-07-27 21:48:07.471550551 +0200
@@ -170,8 +170,11 @@
if (in)
goto load;
sym_add_change_count(1);
- if (!sym_defconfig_list)
+ if (!sym_defconfig_list) {
+ if (modules_sym)
+ sym_calc_value(modules_sym);
return 1;
+ }

for_all_defaults(sym_defconfig_list, prop) {
if (expr_calc_value(prop->visible.expr) == no ||
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From: Américo Wang on
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:57:43PM +0200, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:27:27PM +0200, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There seems to be a kconfig bug due to MODULES not always being evaluated if no
>> .config is found. Take the following Kconfig as an example:
>>
>> config MODULES
>> def_bool y
>>
>> config FOO
>> def_tristate m
>>
>> With no .config, the following configuration is generated:
>>
>> CONFIG_MODULES=y
>> CONFIG_FOO=y
>>
>> With an empty .config, the following:
>>
>> CONFIG_MODULES=y
>> CONFIG_FOO=m
>>
>> Tristate choice statements can also exhibit the problem, due to having an
>> implicit rev_dep (select) containing "m".
>>
>> The problem is that MODULES is never evaluted in conf_read_simple() unless
>> there's a .config. The following patch fixes this.

<snip>

>
>Silly error in the patch. The correct patch follows.
>
>Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer.lkml(a)gmail.com>
>

Sounds good for me.

Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong(a)gmail.com>


>diff -uNr linux.vanilla/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c linux.new/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
>--- linux.vanilla/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c 2010-07-27 16:47:43.443006287 +0200
>+++ linux.new/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c 2010-07-27 21:48:07.471550551 +0200
>@@ -170,8 +170,11 @@
> if (in)
> goto load;
> sym_add_change_count(1);
>- if (!sym_defconfig_list)
>+ if (!sym_defconfig_list) {
>+ if (modules_sym)
>+ sym_calc_value(modules_sym);
> return 1;
>+ }
>
> for_all_defaults(sym_defconfig_list, prop) {
> if (expr_calc_value(prop->visible.expr) == no ||
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From: Michal Marek on
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 02:23:13PM +0800, Am�rico Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:57:43PM +0200, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:27:27PM +0200, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> There seems to be a kconfig bug due to MODULES not always being evaluated if no
> >> .config is found. Take the following Kconfig as an example:
> >>
> >> config MODULES
> >> def_bool y
> >>
> >> config FOO
> >> def_tristate m
> >>
> >> With no .config, the following configuration is generated:
> >>
> >> CONFIG_MODULES=y
> >> CONFIG_FOO=y
> >>
> >> With an empty .config, the following:
> >>
> >> CONFIG_MODULES=y
> >> CONFIG_FOO=m
> >>
> >> Tristate choice statements can also exhibit the problem, due to having an
> >> implicit rev_dep (select) containing "m".
> >>
> >> The problem is that MODULES is never evaluted in conf_read_simple() unless
> >> there's a .config. The following patch fixes this.
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> >Silly error in the patch. The correct patch follows.

Even the previous patch was correct, sym_calc_value() does nothing if
the argument is NULL.

> >
> >Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer.lkml(a)gmail.com>
> >
>
> Sounds good for me.
>
> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong(a)gmail.com>

Thanks. Added for 2.6.36 to kbuild-2.6.git (this is not a .35
regression AFAICS).

Michal
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