Re: [PATCH][RFC] check for select dependency errors on config load

Ingo Molnar
2009-02-22T16:23:31Z

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> There's been a few problems with SELECT and dependencies
> lately. I've been burnt by it a few times myself. So I look at
> the kconfig code and added this patch. It can use a bit more
> work but it does what I want.
>
> When the config is loaded, it checks all the symbols that are
> selected by an active config and makes sure the visible
> dependencies are also activated. This should probably be moved
> to the writing of the config instead, but since I just wanted
> to see if my current config was OK, I did it on load. This is
> an RFC patch anyway, so fixes/comments are definitely welcome.
>
> Here's what I get with the attached config running on
> 2.6.29-rc5.

Yah! Very nice Steve.

/me nominates Steve as the Kconfig maintainer :-)

Ingo