From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:47921 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758324AbXHHWxq (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:53:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:52:31 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Michael Buesch Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: arm allmodconfig Message-Id: <20070808155231.77bfc676.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <200708090038.05320.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <20070808145705.756597b0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200708090013.06846.mb@bu3sch.de> <20070808152606.9ea3010f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200708090038.05320.mb@bu3sch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:38:05 +0200 Michael Buesch 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.