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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:15:25 -0300
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>, Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
       Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] select FW_LOADER -> depends HOTPLUG
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:16:57PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:44:11AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 
> > I assume Sam thinks in the direction to let a symbol inherit the 
> > dependencies off all symbols it selects.
> > 
> > E.g. in
> > 
> > config A
> > 	depends on B
> > 
> > config C
> > 	select A
>         depends on Z
> 
>   config Z
>         depends on Y
> > 
> > 
> > C should be treated as if it would depend on B.
> 
> Correct. But at the same time I miss some functionality to
> tell me what a given symbol:
> 1) depends on
> 2) selects
> 
> It would be nice in menuconfig to see what config symbol
> that has dependencies and/or side effects. 

Definately agreed. Not all users want/can go and grep the source 
tree looking for dependencies of a given 
symbol.

Showing the dependencies on menuconfig/xconfig is a user friendly 
feature.