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

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Date:	Tue, 22 May 2007 19:38:44 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
CC:	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>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

Satyam Sharma wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>> >> > On 5/20/07, Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>> >> >>         depends on !PLATFORM_X || HELPER_N_ON_PLATFORM_X
...
>> This is a synthetic example which might not have a real-world application.]
> 
> Well, it is not relevant / equivalent to any of the four symbols that caused the
> warnings that this thread is about, at least.

(Have I ever said that this concrete expression can be used in whatever
fix?)

...
> and as I said, this was totally *not* the problem being discussed /
> solved in this thread (and by that patch).

My point was not about that particular expression. My point was:

	I'm not advocating any specific fixes or pseudo-fixes.
	I'm advocating the notation of dependencies in the direction
	"A requires B".

When I said "The standard and maintainable way (for drivers at least)
is..." I didn't mean the example expression, I meant the *direction* in
which the example was stating dependencies.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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