netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Kconfig: Introduce "uses" keyword

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Message-ID: <nycvar.YSQ.7.76.2004231059170.2671@knanqh.ubzr>
Date:   Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:01:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Kconfig: Introduce "uses" keyword

On Wed, 22 Apr 2020, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> On 4/22/20 2:13 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Apr 2020, Jani Nikula wrote:
> > 
> >> On Tue, 21 Apr 2020, Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net> wrote:
> >>> This is really a conditional dependency. That's all this is about.
> >>> So why not simply making it so rather than fooling ourselves? All that 
> >>> is required is an extension that would allow:
> >>>
> >>> 	depends on (expression) if (expression)
> >>>
> >>> This construct should be obvious even without reading the doc, is 
> >>> already used extensively for other things already, and is flexible 
> >>> enough to cover all sort of cases in addition to this particular one.
> >>
> >> Okay, you convinced me. Now you only need to convince whoever is doing
> >> the actual work of implementing this stuff. ;)
> > 
> > What about this:
> > 
> > ----- >8
> > Subject: [PATCH] kconfig: allow for conditional dependencies
> > 
> > This might appear to be a strange concept, but sometimes we want
> > a dependency to be conditionally applied. One such case is currently
> > expressed with:
> > 
> > 	depends on FOO || !FOO
> > 
> > This pattern is strange enough to give one's pause. Given that it is
> > also frequent, let's make the intent more obvious with some syntaxic 
> > sugar by effectively making dependencies optionally conditional.
> > This also makes the kconfig language more uniform.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If we must do something here, I prefer this one.
> 
> Nicolas, would you do another example, specifically for
> CRAMFS_MTD in fs/cramfs/Kconfig, please?

I don't see how that one can be helped. The MTD dependency is not 
optional.


Nicolas