Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for August 19 (mfd/ucb)

From: Sam Ravnborg <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:21:59 +0200

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 05:05:17PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> drivers/mfd/ucb1400 is a sound (AC97) driver, so it should depend
> on AC97_BUS, like in the patch below.  However, with that patch in
> place, oldconfig goes belly up on me:
> 
> 
> linux-next-20080819> make ARCH=x86_64  O=X64  V=1 oldconfig
> make -C /local/linsrc/linux-next-20080819/X64 \
> 	KBUILD_SRC=/local/linsrc/linux-next-20080819 \
> 	KBUILD_EXTMOD="" -f /local/linsrc/linux-next-20080819/Makefile \
> 	oldconfig
> make -f /local/linsrc/linux-next-20080819/scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/basic
> /bin/sh /local/linsrc/linux-next-20080819/scripts/mkmakefile \
> 	    /local/linsrc/linux-next-20080819 /local/linsrc/linux-next-20080819/X64 2 6
>   GEN     /local/linsrc/linux-next-20080819/X64/Makefile
> mkdir -p include/linux include/config
> make -f /local/linsrc/linux-next-20080819/scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/kconfig oldconfig
> scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/x86/Kconfig
> make[2]: *** [oldconfig] Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> make[1]: *** [oldconfig] Error 2
> make: *** [sub-make] Error 2

I have an outstanding bug in kconfig where it SEGV when it
sees a circular dependency - and I think you hit it here :-(

	Sam