linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] latencytop: Change Kconfig dependency.

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Message-ID: <20080201133931.GB13349@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:39:31 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Holger Wolf <wolf@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] latencytop: Change Kconfig dependency.

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 02:32:28PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
> 
> > >  config STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
> > >  	def_bool y
> > >  
> > > +config HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
> > > +	def_bool y
> > > +
> > No.
> > Please do:
> >  config X86
> > +	select HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT
> > 
> > Yes - this is a valid use of select.
> 
> i see - and there's lots of other examples of this and other similar 
> things in other architectures as well. Could we do that as a separate 
> cleanup patch instead, to keep the Kconfig file consistently structured.

I would prefer new stuff to use the recommended method.
But I have no strong feelign for it and at the moment I am fed up
in Section mismatch warnings :-(

	Sam
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