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From: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
To: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@freescale.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Artem.Bityutskiy@intel.com,
	shijie8@gmail.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD/GPMI : select more modules for GPMI by default
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:27:36 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EFEB968.2000905@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111231072441.GF12182@S2100-06.ap.freescale.net>

Hi,

thanks a lot!
> Here is what Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt tells:
>
>          select should be used with care. select will force
>          a symbol to a value without visiting the dependencies.
:( I ever thought the select will do the dependencies automatically.


I do not like the GPMI depend on the MXS-DMA. It looks very strange when 
you do the "make menuconfig".

to Arterm:
   Maybe you can drop this patch.

thanks

Huang Shijie
>          By abusing select you are able to select a symbol FOO even
>          if FOO depends on BAR that is not set.
>          In general use select only for non-visible symbols
>          (no prompts anywhere) and for symbols with no dependencies.
>          That will limit the usefulness but on the other hand avoid
>          the illegal configurations all over.
>

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: b32955@freescale.com (Huang Shijie)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] MTD/GPMI : select more modules for GPMI by default
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:27:36 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EFEB968.2000905@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111231072441.GF12182@S2100-06.ap.freescale.net>

Hi,

thanks a lot!
> Here is what Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt tells:
>
>          select should be used with care. select will force
>          a symbol to a value without visiting the dependencies.
:( I ever thought the select will do the dependencies automatically.


I do not like the GPMI depend on the MXS-DMA. It looks very strange when 
you do the "make menuconfig".

to Arterm:
   Maybe you can drop this patch.

thanks

Huang Shijie
>          By abusing select you are able to select a symbol FOO even
>          if FOO depends on BAR that is not set.
>          In general use select only for non-visible symbols
>          (no prompts anywhere) and for symbols with no dependencies.
>          That will limit the usefulness but on the other hand avoid
>          the illegal configurations all over.
>

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-31  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-30  4:45 [PATCH] MTD/GPMI : select more modules for GPMI by default Huang Shijie
2011-12-30  4:45 ` Huang Shijie
2011-12-31  5:44 ` Shawn Guo
2011-12-31  5:44   ` Shawn Guo
2011-12-31  5:48   ` Huang Shijie
2011-12-31  5:48     ` Huang Shijie
2011-12-31  7:01     ` Marek Vasut
2011-12-31  7:01       ` Marek Vasut
2011-12-31  7:10       ` Huang Shijie
2011-12-31  7:10         ` Huang Shijie
2011-12-31  7:24     ` Shawn Guo
2011-12-31  7:24       ` Shawn Guo
2011-12-31  7:27       ` Huang Shijie [this message]
2011-12-31  7:27         ` Huang Shijie
2011-12-31 15:46         ` Wolfram Sang
2011-12-31 15:46           ` Wolfram Sang

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