Hi all,

On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:23:06 +1000 Stephen Rothwell [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:59:59 +0200 Michal Marek [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 2014-09-18 02:35, Randy Dunlap wrote:

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On 09/17/14 17:32, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

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Hi all,

After merging the net tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
ppc64_defconfig) produced these warnings:

warning: (PPC_CELL_NATIVE && BLUESTONE && CANYONLANDS && GLACIER && EIGER && 440EPX && 440GRX && 440GX && 460SX && 405EX) selects IBM_EMAC_RGMII which has unmet direct dependencies (NETDEVICES && ETHERNET && NET_VENDOR_IBM)
warning: (PPC_CELL_NATIVE && CANYONLANDS && GLACIER && 440EP && 440EPX && 440GRX && 440GP && 440GX && 460SX && 405GP) selects IBM_EMAC_ZMII which has unmet direct dependencies (NETDEVICES && ETHERNET && NET_VENDOR_IBM)
warning: (PPC_CELL_NATIVE && 440GX && 460EX && 460SX && APM821xx) selects IBM_EMAC_TAH which has unmet direct dependencies (NETDEVICES && ETHERNET && NET_VENDOR_IBM)
warning: (PPC_CELL_NATIVE && AKEBONO && 440EPX && 440GRX && 440GX && 440SPe && 460EX && 460SX && APM821xx && 405EX) selects IBM_EMAC_EMAC4 which has unmet direct dependencies (NETDEVICES && ETHERNET && NET_VENDOR_IBM)
warning: (PPC_CELL_NATIVE && CANYONLANDS && GLACIER && 440EP && 440EPX && 440GRX && 440GP && 440GX && 460SX && 405GP) selects IBM_EMAC_ZMII which has unmet direct dependencies (NETDEVICES && ETHERNET && NET_VENDOR_IBM)
warning: (PPC_CELL_NATIVE && BLUESTONE && CANYONLANDS && GLACIER && EIGER && 440EPX && 440GRX && 440GX && 460SX && 405EX) selects IBM_EMAC_RGMII which has unmet direct dependencies (NETDEVICES && ETHERNET && NET_VENDOR_IBM)
warning: (PPC_CELL_NATIVE && 440GX && 460EX && 460SX && APM821xx) selects IBM_EMAC_TAH which has unmet direct dependencies (NETDEVICES && ETHERNET && NET_VENDOR_IBM)
warning: (PPC_CELL_NATIVE && AKEBONO && 440EPX && 440GRX && 440GX && 440SPe && 460EX && 460SX && APM821xx && 405EX) selects IBM_EMAC_EMAC4 which has unmet direct dependencies (NETDEVICES && ETHERNET && NET_VENDOR_IBM)

I have looked into these and don't see why there is a problem.
Any help would be appreciated.

This is a side effect of 5d6be6a5 ("scsi_netlink : Make SCSI_NETLINK
dependent on NET instead of selecting NET"). Previously, SCSI_FC_ATTRS
would select SCSI_NETLINK which would select CONFIG_NET. The above
warnings are just a tip of the iceberg, the more serious issue is that
ppc64_defconfig is lacking networking support. This is the downside of
savedefconfig, because the 'select' implications can disappear over
time. Looks like more defconfigs are affected by this:

And since 5d6be6a5 is now in Linus' tree, we need Michal's 5 patches
(at least) to be sent to Linus ASAP ...

I have put those 5 patches in my fixes tree for today ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au