linux-kernel - Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

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Message-ID: <46503542.50300@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Sun, 20 May 2007 13:47:14 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Subject: Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

Satyam Sharma wrote:
> On 5/20/07, Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>> However you fix it --- don't remove "depends on" or "select".  You can
>> interchange them, but not remove them, unless there wasn't a dependency
>> to begin with.
> 
> They _can_ be removed, with absolutely no build failures at all, because
> of the "default y if ..." on the dependency that is defined in some
> arch/.../Kconfig.

You are right, they can be removed, and the Kconfig files can be turned
into an unmaintainable mess.

	A requires B

Maintainable.

	B serves A

Logically equivalent, yet unmaintainable.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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