linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] kconfig: remove the unused "requires" syntax

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Date:	Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:46:27 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
cc:	zippel@...ux-m68k.org,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kbuild-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] kconfig: remove the unused "requires" syntax

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:41:59AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   Remove the note in the documentation that suggests people can use
> > "requires" for dependencies in Kconfig files.
> >...
>
> Considering that noone uses it, what about the patch below to also
> remove the implementation?

... big snip ...

i have no problem knocking out of the parser anything related to
"depends" or "requires."  in fact, i did note in earlier patch
submissions that i was just cleaning the Kconfig files but i was
leaving the parser alone, and someone else was welcome to take care of
that.

if the kbuild folks are good with this, i certainly have no objection.

rday

p.s.  i didn't look closely enough to see if your patch took out
support for both "depends" *and* "requires".  at this point, neither
of those are necessary anymore -- it's all "depends on" except for
three remaining Kconfig files.

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