Heads up: Linus plans to kill ARM defconfigs

[catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)]

On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 07:07 +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 09 Juni 2010, 01:21:24 schrieb Ryan Mallon:
> > Yes. I thought the problem was that Kconfig doesn't work correctly for
> > this though. Does having 'select MTD_PARTITIONS' automatically cause
> > CONFIG_MTD to be set? If not, then you basically need to have the full
> > config option list, which is basically what defconfig is.
> 
> Anybody thought about improving Kconfig to make this possible?
> Specifying CONFIG_MTD and CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS again and again will just
> repeat information (that CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS depends on CONFIG_MTD).
> The recursive 'select' could have a different name.

A first step is a warning when selecting options with unmet dependencies
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/8/191.

This could be extended to automatically select the dependencies but it
many cases it could just be a Kconfig error.

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Catalin