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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: sachinp <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>, samr <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linuxppc-dev <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	linux-next <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
	subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BUILD FAILURE 11/12] Next April 21 : PPC64 randconfig [drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.o]
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:00:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49EE8855.1080306@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200904211919.38104.david-b@pacbell.net>

David Brownell wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> Since its feasible to say 'n' to both we get the compile error.  How do
>>> we enforce having at least one set?
>> Looks like using "choice" without "optional" would do it.
>> See Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt and various examples
>> in Kconfig* files.
> 
> That won't quite work ... "at least one" includes "two"
> (i.e. a PCI card in little-endian, a native controller
> in big-endian).  Real-world systems need such configs,
> or so I'm told, and that's why their supported.

Yes, I see.

> Is there maybe a way to force Kconfig to just reject
> such illegal configs -- neither option set -- rather
> than trying some how to fix it?

Not that I know of.  cc-ing Sam.

> Or maybe ... if neither one is set, have the header
> force both on, and issue a warning.

That should be doable.  We'd prefer to catch it via Kconfig,
but that doesn't look promising just now.

-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-22  3:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-21 18:54 [BUILD FAILURE 11/12] Next April 21 : PPC64 randconfig [drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.o] Subrata Modak
     [not found] ` <1240340081.9110.144.camel-NRFfyExJdYpgXGGE5LP+UZlqa2bBAFbm0E9HWUfgJXw@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-21 19:03   ` David Brownell
2009-04-21 21:37     ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-21 22:05       ` Randy Dunlap
     [not found]         ` <49EE4341.50701-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-22  2:19           ` David Brownell
2009-04-22  3:00             ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
     [not found]               ` <49EE8855.1080306-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-22  7:30                 ` Arnd Bergmann

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