linux-kernel - Re: visibility changes (was: Re: [GIT] kbuild and kconfig fixes for 2.6.37-rc5)

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Date:	Wed, 8 Dec 2010 09:57:07 +0100
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
Cc:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	brueckner@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: visibility changes (was: Re: [GIT] kbuild and kconfig fixes for 2.6.37-rc5)

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 23:36, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com> wrote:
> Em 07-12-2010 18:45, Geert Uytterhoeven escreveu:
>> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 21:40, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 20:51, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 14:57, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz> wrote:
>>>>>>> please pull these kbuild/kconfig fixes for the next -rc. The largest
>>>>>>> part are fixes for the annoying kconfig warnings, contributed by Arnaud
>>>>>>> Lacombe and Mauro Carvalho Chehab. The solution adds a new 'visible if'
>>>>>>> keyword to the Kconfig language, so it's not exactly something that one
>>>>>>> would expect in the rc phase, but the kconfig change is not huge (the
>>>>>>> large diff is due to generated files) and it is deployed only in those
>>>>>>> five Kconfig files that had the warnings and were hard to fix by other
>>>>>>> means.  The second part is a forgotten patch by Hendrik Brueckner to
>>>>>>> usr/initramfs, that fixes build for Blackfin and h8300.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Arnaud Lacombe (5):
>>>>>>>      kconfig: add an option to determine a menu's visibility
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hmm, this changeset also went in through the v4l tree?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Mauro merely imported the set in his tree to give them visibility and
>>>>> testing, but they went in trough the kbuild tree after being in -next
>>>>> for a week.
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, git show 86e187ff9bce9fbed7bfed92ae34f491cf1af50f doesn't
>>>> show a SoB from Michal...
>>>>
>>> Why would you expect it to ? Most of the commit in Linus' tree are not
>>> personally SoB by him.
>>
>> Sorry, you're right.
>>
>>>>>> BTW, I got confused:
>>>>>>  - make allmodconfig causes e.g.:
>>>>>>        CONFIG_VIDEO_HELPER_CHIPS_AUTO=y
>>>>>>        CONFIG_VIDEO_TVAUDIO=m
>>>>>>    => good
>>>>>>  - make oldconfig for my config with almost everything selected,
>>>>>> except for stuff I know that breaks:
>>>>>>        CONFIG_VIDEO_HELPER_CHIPS_AUTO=y
>>>>>>        # CONFIG_VIDEO_TVAUDIO is not set
>>>>>>    and no way to manually set CONFIG_VIDEO_TVAUDIO=y?
>>>>>>    => bad!
>>>>> that's difficult to judge without your old configuration.
>>>>> VIDEO_TVAUDIO is only selected by VIDEO_BT848 which you don't give
>>>>> information about.
>>>>
>>>> I don't have PCI, so I cannot enable VIDEO_BT848.
>>>>
>>> so why do you expect VIDEO_TVAUDIO to be enabled ?
>>
>> I don't expect it to be enabled, I expected to be able to enable it.
>> Allmodconfig
>> does enable it.
>
> Why do you want to enable a device that doesn't work? There's no other driver
> but bttv that has upport for the devices implemented by tvaudio module.
>
> /me is confused...

Compile coverage?

Haven't checked yet whether it gets enabled with allyesconfig, but allyesconfig
contains a few things that don't work.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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