linux-kernel - Re: Kconfig troubles when using menuconfig - Was: [patch]Re: [linux-usb-devel] linux-2.6.22-rc5-gf1518a0 build #300 failed in zc0301

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706221549280.26568@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:51:34 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
cc:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>,
	linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, video4linux-list@...hat.com,
	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>,
	luca.risolia@...dio.unibo.it, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kconfig troubles when using menuconfig - Was: [patch]Re:
 [linux-usb-devel] linux-2.6.22-rc5-gf1518a0 build #300 failed in zc0301_core.c


On Jun 22 2007 15:46, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am not sure whether it is related or not
>But if you select USB as module but build your v4l_usb driver
>into the kernel you also get compile errors.
>Attached is a patch which will prevent this by changing the menuconfig
>from bool to tristate.

A config option that is not referenced in the Makefile...
should it really be a tristate? In my opinion, changing it
to tristate is just a workaround, but I don't know kconfig
well enough to make bool Do The Right Thing in these situations myself :(


	Jan
-- 
-
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/