Re: arm allmodconfig

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:38:05 +0200
Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:

> > Just stop using select.   It's busted.
> 
> Ok, I have no problem with that. BUT my users and other people
> in the kernel community do certainly have. Nobody will find
> the bcm43xx option anymore, if we depend on SSB.
> I mean, people do even seriously complain about the filenames
> of the firmware and so on.
> So adding a dep on SSB would generate about 3 to 4
> bugreports each day, I'd say from experience.

yup, I understand the problem and I cannot suggest any acceptable solution,
apart from...

> So, once you suggested that menuconfig should be changed to
> show options "greyed out" when deps are not met. Are there
> any patches available? Any starting point?

No, nothing at all, sorry.

I'm getting a _lot_ of build breakage out of SSB right now.


I wonder if we could do something lame like adding some text to the
BCM_whatever Kconfig files, right there on the top-level menu entry which
says "go look at CONFIG_SSB".  Make it really obvious.