linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] drivers: cleanup Kconfig stuff

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Message-ID: <20101102203452.GB32103@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date:	Tue, 2 Nov 2010 16:34:53 -0400
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>
Cc:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	linux-usb <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-main <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-omap <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...mlogic.co.uk>,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, Hao Wu <hao.wu@...el.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Mike Rapoport <mike@...pulab.co.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] drivers: cleanup Kconfig stuff

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 09:46:47PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Mark Brown

> > It did originally but that dependency was removed to allow build
> > coverage for non-OMAP users.

> I'm not sure removing that dependency is worth it. There's probably a
> lot of code in the kernel that can be built without meeting the
> specified dependencies. Maybe there should be a way to differentiate
> soft from hard dependencies for this particular use-case. But I guess
> for now the lack of dependency should be ok.

It's really useful for subsystem maintainers - it means you can do
changes over the subsystem without having to have a build lots and lots
of different configs per chip to make sure everything still at least
compiles.
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