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Date:	Mon, 25 May 2015 12:59:37 +0200
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
Cc:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, clemens@...isch.de,
	JBottomley@...n.com, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	"Gustavo F. Padovan" <gustavo@...ovan.org>,
	Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
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	Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com>,
	Imre Kaloz <kaloz@...nwrt.org>, khalasa@...p.pl,
	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, 3chas3@...il.com,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, Bryan Wu <cooloney@...il.com>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@...sung.com>,
	mcgrof@...not-panic.com,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v1] tree-wide: remove "select FW_LOADER" uses

On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 21:28 +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: 
> > So I see your GYM and LOCKER example, or better, the original FW &
> > CRYPTO warning and I wonder why do we actually go and check dependencies
> > of selected symbols when resolving given symbol.
> 
> I'm no kconfig expert and I wondered the same.
> 
> Perhaps Paul can elaborate.

Because both the dependencies of a symbol and the select statements on
that symbol influence the set of values that is possible for that
symbol.


Paul Bolle

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