From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@debian.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
jt@hpl.hp.com, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>,
Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
zippel@linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: request_firmware() hotplug interface, third round and a halve
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 23:51:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030521215116.GA3441@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030521185212.GC12677@ranty.ddts.net>
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 08:52:12PM +0200, Manuel Estrada Sainz wrote:
>
> Maybe kbuild could allow forcing one option from another, a companion
> for 'depends', lets call it 'hard_depends'
>
> depends FOO
> If FOO is not there the entry won't even be shown in the
> menu.
> hard_depends FOO
> FOO gets set to satisfy the dependency.
>
Roman Zippel introduced: "enable" in his latest Kconfig goodies:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105274692328723&w=2
Would that be usefull for you?
This would allow you to set CONFIG_LOADER for the drivers that
really needs it.
IIRC this is not included in Linus-BK yet.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-21 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-17 22:19 request_firmware() hotplug interface, third round and a halve Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-21 7:23 ` Greg KH
2003-05-21 7:44 ` David Gibson
2003-05-21 18:36 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-21 18:34 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-21 19:03 ` Greg KH
2003-05-21 18:52 ` [PATCH] " Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-21 20:07 ` Greg KH
2003-05-22 15:31 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-22 16:14 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-05-22 16:34 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-22 16:38 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-05-22 16:43 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-22 16:51 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-05-22 17:01 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-22 17:03 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-05-22 17:57 ` Simon Kelley
2003-05-22 18:15 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-21 21:51 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2003-05-22 6:26 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
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