linux-kernel - [PATCH] kconfig: Clarify choice dependency propagation

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Date:   Sun, 14 Jan 2018 15:12:05 +0100
From:   Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com, sam@...nborg.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kconfig: Clarify choice dependency propagation

It's easy to miss that choices are special-cased to pass on their mode
as the parent dependency.

No functional changes. Only comments added.

Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>
---
 scripts/kconfig/menu.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/menu.c b/scripts/kconfig/menu.c
index 92d3f06cd8a2..53964d911708 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/menu.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/menu.c
@@ -323,6 +323,13 @@ void menu_finalize(struct menu *parent)
 				if (menu->sym && menu->sym->type == S_UNKNOWN)
 					menu_set_type(sym->type);
 			}
+
+			/*
+			 * Use the choice itself as the parent dependency of
+			 * the contained items. This turns the mode of the
+			 * choice into an upper bound on the visibility of the
+			 * choice symbols.
+			 */
 			parentdep = expr_alloc_symbol(sym);
 		} else if (parent->prompt)
 			parentdep = parent->prompt->visible.expr;
-- 
2.14.1