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Message-ID: <a781481a0705221046p6d94a652k3081eacdba01ca8d@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 23:16:59 +0530
From: "Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
To: "Stefan Richter" <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
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?
On 5/22/07, Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> 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.
In that case I wish "the points" you make on threads are relevant to them.
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