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Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 10:43:32 +0100 From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk> To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org> Subject: Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus? On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:02:35AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 04:22:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sun, 20 May 2007 01:05:37 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> wrote: > > > > > Look for example at the last one in drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig: > > > > > > config MOUSE_ATARI > > > tristate "Atari mouse" > > > depends on ATARI > > > select ATARI_KBD_CORE > > > > > > This is perfectly correct (the select'ed symbol is only unavailable when > > > the dependency can't be fulfilled), and all things to "fix" the warning > > > will make it worse. > > > > If ATARI is unset then we shouldn't be generating the "'select' used by > > config symbol 'KEYBOARD_ATARI' refers to undefined symbol 'ATARI_KBD_CORE'" > > warnings, should we? > > Exactly. If we do that we need to try a million and one Kconfig option combinations to find undefined symbols. Not practical. (And no, allyconfig really doesn't hack it on non-x86 platforms, no matter how much people whinge that it should do. It's a pipedream to make it so.) -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - 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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