linux-kernel - Re: Kconfig warnings on latest GIT

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Message-ID: <20070511022721.GI10715@verge.net.au>
Date:	Fri, 11 May 2007 11:27:22 +0900
From:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	sam@...nborg.org, Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>,
	Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@...escale.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Ismail Dönmez <ismail@...dus.org.tr>,
	Michael Schmitz <schmitz@...ian.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: Kconfig warnings on latest GIT

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:13:34PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2007, Simon Horman wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:47:05PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > > Try this patch:
> >
> > That certainly resolves the problem for me.
> > I'll see about doing something like that for the similar
> > Kconfig problems that I see.
> 
> I've got a similar fix for SYS_SUPPORTS_APM_EMULATION already.  I'll push
> both of these to Paul.  If you can put something in place for the
> Atari/68k and send it to Geert that would be good (feeling a little lazy
> right now :)
> 
> I'm still not happy about this fix.  I'd like to get Sam's feeling on if
> we can fixup kconfig not to warn if the dependency isn't meet.  I think
> the select is valid, and would prefer to fix this properly before we paper
> tape over it.

I agree. I had thought a little about a kconfig fix. Though I'm
wondering if removing the warning will lead to oodles of dangling
symbols and invalid checks over time.

In any case, I'll look into the Atari problem. At least that way
there will be some patches to add to the discussion.

-- 
Horms
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