linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] fix recursive dependencies

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Date:	Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:09:02 +0100 (CET)
From:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kiran@...lemp.com, shai@...lemp.com,
	Glauber Costa <gcosta@...hat.com>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@....COM>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] fix recursive dependencies

Hi,

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> We discovered a situation where we could set a
> choice value in menuconfig but later when we either was
> running menuconfig or oldconfig the value were changed.

The patch fixes these dependency problems.

bye, Roman


The proper dependency check uncovered a few dependency problems,
the subarchitecture used a mixture of selects and depends on SMP
and PCI dependency was messed up.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>

---
 arch/x86/Kconfig |   10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -243,8 +243,7 @@ config X86_ELAN
 
 config X86_VOYAGER
 	bool "Voyager (NCR)"
-	depends on X86_32
-	select SMP if !BROKEN
+	depends on X86_32 && (SMP || BROKEN)
 	help
 	  Voyager is an MCA-based 32-way capable SMP architecture proprietary
 	  to NCR Corp.  Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are Voyager-based.
@@ -256,9 +255,8 @@ config X86_VOYAGER
 
 config X86_NUMAQ
 	bool "NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent)"
-	select SMP
+	depends on SMP && X86_32
 	select NUMA
-	depends on X86_32
 	help
 	  This option is used for getting Linux to run on a (IBM/Sequent) NUMA
 	  multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are bootstrapped,
@@ -329,7 +327,7 @@ config X86_RDC321X
 
 config X86_VSMP
 	bool "Support for ScaleMP vSMP"
-	depends on X86_64 && PCI
+	depends on X86_64
 	 help
 	  Support for ScaleMP vSMP systems.  Say 'Y' here if this kernel is
 	  supposed to run on these EM64T-based machines.  Only choose this option
@@ -1381,7 +1379,7 @@ endmenu
 menu "Bus options (PCI etc.)"
 
 config PCI
-	bool "PCI support" if !X86_VISWS
+	bool "PCI support" if !X86_VISWS && !X86_VSMP
 	depends on !X86_VOYAGER
 	default y
 	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI if (X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_IO_APIC)
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