linux-kernel - Re: Ingo, no more kconfig patches

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Message-ID: <20080503191744.GA22990@elte.hu>
Date:	Sat, 3 May 2008 21:17:44 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Ingo, no more kconfig patches


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> || Kconfig might be extended to make dependencies easier to manage for 
> || developers but until that is implemented you have to craft your 
> || driver's dependencies with the current tools in a way that doesnt 
> || break the build.
> 
> and that's exactly what happens with Roman's patch: a Kconfig 
> subsystem design bug (its inability to properly propagate the 
> dependencies of select's) is worked around in the driver space: by the 
> LEDS_CORE driver config introduction and no user-visible.
                                       breakage remains --^

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