linux-kernel - Re: Kconfig circular dependency question

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Message-ID: <5341DA66.5070907@lwfinger.net>
Date:	Sun, 06 Apr 2014 17:51:18 -0500
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
CC:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kconfig circular dependency question

On 04/06/2014 04:14 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> 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.

No problem - it is attached. The problem I was trying to solve was reported by 
the kbuild test robot. To get the driver r8723au, you will need the staging-next 
tree.

Larry



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