linux-kernel - visibility changes (was: Re: [GIT] kbuild and kconfig fixes for 2.6.37-rc5)

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Date:	Tue, 7 Dec 2010 20:07:09 +0100
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	brueckner@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, lacombar@...il.com,
	mchehab@...hat.com, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: visibility changes (was: Re: [GIT] kbuild and kconfig fixes for 2.6.37-rc5)

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 14:57, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz> wrote:
> please pull these kbuild/kconfig fixes for the next -rc. The largest
> part are fixes for the annoying kconfig warnings, contributed by Arnaud
> Lacombe and Mauro Carvalho Chehab. The solution adds a new 'visible if'
> keyword to the Kconfig language, so it's not exactly something that one
> would expect in the rc phase, but the kconfig change is not huge (the
> large diff is due to generated files) and it is deployed only in those
> five Kconfig files that had the warnings and were hard to fix by other
> means.  The second part is a forgotten patch by Hendrik Brueckner to
> usr/initramfs, that fixes build for Blackfin and h8300.

> Arnaud Lacombe (5):
>      kconfig: add an option to determine a menu's visibility

Hmm, this changeset also went in through the v4l tree?

BTW, I got confused:
  - make allmodconfig causes e.g.:
        CONFIG_VIDEO_HELPER_CHIPS_AUTO=y
        CONFIG_VIDEO_TVAUDIO=m
    => good
  - make oldconfig for my config with almost everything selected,
except for stuff I know that breaks:
        CONFIG_VIDEO_HELPER_CHIPS_AUTO=y
        # CONFIG_VIDEO_TVAUDIO is not set
    and no way to manually set CONFIG_VIDEO_TVAUDIO=y?
    => bad!

Is this intentional?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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