From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:60493 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934427AbXHHXDq (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:03:46 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: arm allmodconfig Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 01:03:16 +0200 Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <20070808145705.756597b0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200708090038.05320.mb@bu3sch.de> <20070808155231.77bfc676.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070808155231.77bfc676.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200708090103.16295.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 09 August 2007 00:52:31 Andrew Morton wrote: > > 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. Ok, I will do some patch that converts all this to dependencies and I will later look for a solution to the other problem created by this. -- Greetings Michael.