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Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 03:49:43 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: Ingo, no more kconfig patches On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:37:47AM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> writes: > > > FB_SGIVW requires X86_VISWS and it's selected automatically. > > > > (which is not good if you want a kernel that runs on a PC) > > Not sure what do you mean, it currently seem to "depend" on X86_VISWS: > > config FB_SGIVW > tristate "SGI Visual Workstation framebuffer support" > depends on FB && X86_VISWS > select FB_CFB_FILLRECT > select FB_CFB_COPYAREA > select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT Unless I misunderstand your proposal you want to resolve dependencies reversely. And if you want to only do this for select's: FB_SGIVW could also be select'ed. > > Why do we have to bother users with the MII option at all? > > > > "E1000E=m and TULIP=m but MII=y" works, but it doesn't really make > > sense. > > (Obviously it assumes both TULIP and E1000E required MII which is not > exactly the case) > > But it makes a perfect sense, I can have modular drivers for (few) > hardware devices (just in case I want to rmmod etc) but most of the > kernel may be not modular. It would be nice if the Kconfig ask me if > I want to "select" the dependency Y or M, even if there is only one > way to make "select" dependencies happy (not counting "Y vs "M"). Getting the cases that really matter working would already be hard enough... > Krzysztof Halasa cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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