linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] Kconfig: Enable Kconfig fragments to be used for defconfig

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Message-Id: <201007162201.09629.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:01:09 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org>,
	"Uwe Kleine-König" 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Kconfig: Enable Kconfig fragments to be used for defconfig

On Friday 16 July 2010 19:57:55 Grant Likely wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Catalin Marinas
> <catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 00:04 +0100, Grant Likely wrote:
> 
> sfr and I were talking about your patch the other day.  Just warning
> on incomplete dependencies is enough to make it actually workable for
> me (without my ugly post-processing step).  I was very happy to hear
> that it is in linux-next.
> 
> Last missing piece is being able to do "select FOO = n", which Stephen
> is currently working on.

Are there a lot of symbols for which this is needed? If there is only
a handful, you could work around this by selectively adding

config FOO
	bool "foo"
	default !FOO_DISABLE

config FOO_DISABLE
	def_bool "n"


		Arnd
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