linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "kconfig: Temporarily disable dependency warnings"

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Date:	Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:09:41 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, catalin.marinas@....com,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert
 "kconfig: Temporarily disable dependency warnings"

On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:58:54 -0500 Arnaud Lacombe wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:37:31 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:19:46 +0200 Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > This reverts commit 71ebc01, which was a 2.6.36-only stopgap solution.
> >>
> >> I was hoping that we would have the number of these warnings down to
> >> something reasonable before this revert made it into Linus' tree ...
> >>
> >> I guess fixing the V4L stuff will become a bit more urgent, now :-)
> >
> > Is there any chance that the V4L kconfig warnings will be fixed?  It is
> > quite irritating for those of us who do allmodconfig (and allyesconfig)
> > builds ...
> >
> There is 2 patches which fixes that by adding to the kconfig language
> a "visible" property to menus, 1 revert of "another" solution (which
> works but does not scale) and 2 patch which makes usage of the new
> property. Ack-ed and complemented by Mauro, but still waiting
> review/blessing by Michal.
> 
> The core change is available here: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/306412/
> 
> Alternatively, if you don't care about the menu structure, Randy
> proposed a one-liner.

which Mauro nacked.

I don't care about the menu structure, I just want to eliminate the
warnings.

---
~Randy
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