linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RFC] ASoC: Use imply for SND_SOC_ALL

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Date:   Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:03:08 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] ASoC: Use imply for SND_SOC_ALL_CODECS

On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 10:13:51AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Currently SND_SOC_ALL_CODECS selects the config symbols for all codec
> drivers.  As "select" bypasses dependencies, lots of "select" statements
> need explicit dependencies, which are hard to get right, and hard to
> maintain[*].
> 
> Fix this by using "imply" instead, which is a weak version of "select",
> and which obeys dependencies of target symbols.

This is a *really* badly named feature :/

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