linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION] dell-wmi, dell-laptop: select DMI, Kconfig recursive dependency

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Message-ID: <20160301195525.GA11374@hudson.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 1 Mar 2016 11:55:25 -0800
From:	Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@...il.com>
To:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] dell-wmi, dell-laptop: select DMI, Kconfig
 recursive dependency

Hi Darren, Andy,

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 03:13:05PM -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 08:29:40AM -0800, Jeremiah Mahler wrote:
> > Hi Andy,
> > 
> > Running the latest linux-next I am getting a Kconfig recursive
> > dependency detected message that was not present before.
> 
> Thanks for the report. I've queued a fix from Arnd.
> 
> 
...
> -- 
> Darren Hart
> Intel Open Source Technology Center

So to fix this problem it looks like the original patch was
changed to use 'depends' instead of 'select' (d4c6bee31f0c42d8).
This appears to have resolved the problem on my machines.
Thanks for the fix.

-- 
- Jeremiah Mahler