linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] thermal: fix Kconfig dependencies

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803170953210.3020@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:55:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: fix Kconfig dependencies



On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> 
> Change the select to a depends on to fix this. Should work as well.

Nope, that doesn't work. ACPI_THERMAL will select THERMAL, so now you have 
THERMAL selected without HWMON.

As a minimal fix, you'd at least need to make ACPI_THERMAL depend on 
THERMAL too.

		Linus
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