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From: "Dustin C. Hatch" <admiralnemo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: CONFIG_CHECK_FATAL, making CONFIG_CHECKS fatal by default
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:04:14
Message-Id: 51016982.9040600@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: CONFIG_CHECK_FATAL, making CONFIG_CHECKS fatal by default by Rich Freeman
1 On 1/22/2013 05:56, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:11 AM, vivo75@×××××.com <vivo75@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> IMHO the number of cases where CONFIG_CHECK is reliable is so small that
4 >> making it fatal will only bloat make.conf and env with a new var for most
5 >> users.
6 >
7 > Tend to agree. I just got an elog out of udisks complaining about
8 > USB_SUSPEND not being set, and I have no idea why I'd need that on a
9 > system that is powered 24x7. Even the kernel docs suggest that it
10 > should be disabled if users aren't sure if they need it.
11 >
12 > Maybe we need some way to distinguish between must-have and
13 > nice-to-have situations? Clearly failure to boot is in a different
14 > category than not-able-to-suspend.
15 >
16 > Rich
17 >
18 I agree. During an update recently, I noticed that qemu complains if
19 KVM_INTEL isn't set on an AMD CPU. Making this fatal would be stupid,
20 but then nobody who runs qemu-kvm would ever get a fatal error about
21 missing DEVTMPFS.
22
23 --
24 ♫Dustin