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Date:	Fri, 22 May 2015 11:20:03 +0200
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC v1] tree-wide: remove "select FW_LOADER" uses

On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 13:45 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Paul also insists that *there is no reason* to think that current logic
> of the kconfig tools, as it is currently implemented, is flawed [2].

> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/8/748

(It should be noted that Russell King taught me the approach I took
there. Before Russell did that I found dependency errors involving
recursive selects, ie most of them, rather baffling.

Any flaws in that message are entirely mine, of course.)

> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/18/835

"insist" is pushing things a bit too far. "claims" or "stated"?


Paul Bolle

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