linux-kernel - Re: Kconfig circular dependency question

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Message-ID: <1396818854.7118.3.camel@x220>
Date:	Sun, 06 Apr 2014 23:14:14 +0200
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kconfig circular dependency question

On Sun, 2014-04-06 at 16:07 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> As you have seen in my reply to Randy, this appears to arise from violating one 
> of the edicts of Linus that says that no configuration variable should select a 
> subsystem. Of course, one could argue that RFKILL is also a subsystem, and that 
> R8723AU should depend on it rather that selecting it.
> 
> My day also seems to be slowing. :)

Would you mind sharing the .config that triggered this? (I guess I also
need to know the make command you ran.) Than I could play with this, on
a not so slow day, and maybe, just maybe, understand what's going on.


Paul Bolle

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