From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] select FW_LOADER -> depends HOTPLUG
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:15:25 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040811111525.GA2205@dmt.cyclades> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040810211656.GA7221@mars.ravnborg.org>
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:16:57PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:44:11AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > I assume Sam thinks in the direction to let a symbol inherit the
> > dependencies off all symbols it selects.
> >
> > E.g. in
> >
> > config A
> > depends on B
> >
> > config C
> > select A
> depends on Z
>
> config Z
> depends on Y
> >
> >
> > C should be treated as if it would depend on B.
>
> Correct. But at the same time I miss some functionality to
> tell me what a given symbol:
> 1) depends on
> 2) selects
>
> It would be nice in menuconfig to see what config symbol
> that has dependencies and/or side effects.
Definately agreed. Not all users want/can go and grep the source
tree looking for dependencies of a given
symbol.
Showing the dependencies on menuconfig/xconfig is a user friendly
feature.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-11 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-09 19:56 [2.6 patch] select FW_LOADER -> depends HOTPLUG Adrian Bunk
2004-08-09 20:08 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-08-09 20:26 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-09 22:05 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-08-09 20:38 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-10 0:24 ` Roman Zippel
2004-08-10 8:44 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-08-10 21:16 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-11 11:15 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2004-08-11 21:25 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-08-11 23:05 ` Roman Zippel
2004-08-12 19:18 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-08-15 17:06 ` Roman Zippel
2004-08-14 7:49 ` menuconfig displays dependencies [Was: select FW_LOADER -> depends HOTPLUG] Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-14 18:12 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-08-14 21:05 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-08-14 22:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-15 20:21 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-08-15 20:32 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-15 20:45 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-08-15 17:35 ` Roman Zippel
2004-08-15 17:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-08-15 22:47 ` Roman Zippel
2004-08-16 19:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-08-16 20:07 ` Russell King
2004-08-16 20:22 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-08-16 20:39 ` Roman Zippel
2004-08-15 17:28 ` Roman Zippel
2004-08-15 17:58 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-15 22:49 ` Roman Zippel
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