linux-kernel - Re: awful kconfig help texts.

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Message-ID: <20120801074742.GH29673@avionic-0098.adnet.avionic-design.de>
Date:	Wed, 1 Aug 2012 09:47:42 +0200
From:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: awful kconfig help texts.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 07:42:49PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 01:26:38PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Then shouldn't this not have a prompt and just be selected by those
> > PWM drivers below?
> 
> It gives an empty menu due to the deps of the single PWM drivers.
> 
> But the whole CONFIG_PWM thing should simply depend on !X86 so that it
> doesn't appear in drivers/.

I don't think that's a good idea. That would mean I would have to add
!SPARC and !S390 and many other to that list as well. Also there are a
couple of drivers that are in the process of being ported which are not
restricted to ARM or embedded in general. So even if we make this !X86
now, eventually it will pop up again.

Thierry

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