Re: [PATCH] Re: request_firmware() hotplug interface, third round and a halve

[Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@debian.org>]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:51:16PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 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.

 Yep, that is perfect.
 
> IIRC this is not included in Linus-BK yet.

 Nop :( once it is in, I'll start using it. Oh, and I volunteer to
 cleanup the CRC32 stuff on top of that :)

 Have a nice day

 	Manuel

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