Re: [RFC v1] tree-wide: remove "select FW_LOADER" uses

[Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>]

On Mon, 2015-05-25 at 12:06 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 08:25:35PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-05-25 at 10:54 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> For clarity: "recursive dependency resolution" as in "recursive
> resolution of dependencies", not "resolution of recursive dependencies".

I feel a headache coming up.

> For an initial solution, I'd suggest just recursing through "select"
> dependencies; if C has "select B", and B has "select A", enabling C
> should enable B and A.  Since you can't "select A || D", that seems
> straightforward enough.  You can "select A if X", but for that, just
> bail out if the value of the expression X is changed by any of the
> select statements.

Actually, kconfig already recurses through select statements. (I haven't
checked, but I'd expect it to handle the "select A if X" case correctly
while doing the recursive select dance.)

Thanks,


Paul Bolle