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

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Date:	Tue, 7 Dec 2010 14:51:18 -0500
From:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	brueckner@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, mchehab@...hat.com,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: visibility changes (was: Re: [GIT] kbuild and kconfig fixes for 2.6.37-rc5)

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> 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?
>
Mauro merely imported the set in his tree to give them visibility and
testing, but they went in trough the kbuild tree after being in -next
for a week.

> 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!
that's difficult to judge without your old configuration.
VIDEO_TVAUDIO is only selected by VIDEO_BT848 which you don't give
information about.

 - Arnaud
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