linux-kernel - Re: Kconfig fails: big select-based circular dependency

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Date:	Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:18:06 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@...il.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: Kconfig fails: big select-based circular dependency

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 01:57:03PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> Should we have a better separation between select and depends, i.e.
> should kconf plainly reject both being used on the same symbol?

> Is it ever valid to have a symbol that's both selected and used with depends on?

Architecture feature Kconfig symbols typically have the pattern that the
architecture selects ARCH_HAS_FOO and then code that needs the feature
depends on ARCH_HAS_FOO.

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