linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/13] kconfig: print all locations when we see a recursive dependency

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Message-ID: <20090118205416.GD2978@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:54:16 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/13] kconfig: print all locations when we see a recursive dependency

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:55:00AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> > It is nessesary to know all locations when trying to track
> > a recursive dependency. So print out all locations for each symbol.
> 
> The problem is that this is little more than a better grep, although 
> kconfig knows exactly what went wrong, but this info is scattered all over 
> the stack.
> We could either return more info to print more than just the symbol or 
> maintain more info while traversing the tree. The patch below does the 
> latter. The patch could use some small cleanups, so it's not final yet.

Hi Roman.

Have you had time to look more into this?

	Sam
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