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Message-ID: <20070516033335.GH4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 04:33:35 +0100 From: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk> To: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, zippel@...ux-m68k.org, kbuild-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net Subject: [RFC] select and dependencies in Kconfig On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:36:20PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > stuff that does select USB should depend on USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD, or we'll > end up with unbuildable configs. BTW, this kind of situation happens often enough, so how about doing the following: teach kconfig that if FOO selects BAR and BAR depends on <expr>, we should act as if FOO had explicit depends on <expr>. Rationale: if FOO selects BAR, BAR depends on <expr> and <expr> is false, turning FOO on will land us into unbuildable configuration (BAR turned on, dependencies of BAR are not satisfied). It really happens often enough to be very annoying. And we have fsckloads of dependencies that are there only because of such scenarios. Gets especially nasty when BAR is selected by several dozens of options and dependencies of BAR change... Implementing that is pretty simply; the only thing I'm not sure how to deal with is how to show such inherited dependencies in menuconfig et.al. Comments? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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