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 21:31:04 +0100
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
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)

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 20:51, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com> wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, git show 86e187ff9bce9fbed7bfed92ae34f491cf1af50f doesn't
show a SoB from Michal...

>> 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.

I don't have PCI, so I cannot enable VIDEO_BT848.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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