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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 22:45:55 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
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Subject: Re: menuconfig displays dependencies [Was: select FW_LOADER -> depends HOTPLUG]
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On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 10:32:45PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 10:21:11PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > CONFIG_FOO
> > > 
> > > Depends on:
> > > CONFIG_BAR: [ ] "Prompt for BAR"
> > 
> > 
> > Assuming I'm configuring a kernel for i386, what should I see when 
> > pressing 'd' on the following driver?
> > 
> > 
> > config OAKNET
> >         tristate "National DP83902AV (Oak ethernet) support"
> >         depends on NET_ETHERNET && PPC && BROKEN
> >         select CRC32
> > 
> What about:
> Depends on:
>   [ ] "Prompt for NET_ETHERNET"	(CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET)
>   --- "Promt ..." (CONFIG_PPC)
>   --- " Prompt ... " (CONFIG_BROKEN)

CONFIG_BROKEN is available.

And in other cases, e.g. I2C_ALGOBIT might be a dependency, but depends 
itself on I2C which might be disabled.

> Selects
>   "Prompt for CRC32)" (CONFIG_CRC32)
> 
> That would make sense to me at least.

Showing all !i386 drivers on i386 will make it harder for people to find 
the drivers they actually need.

> If I ever look into it I will touch upon the corner cases for sure.

Thanks.

BTW:
"make oldconfig" will need a similar treatment before we can start 
changing selects to depends.

> 	Sam

cu
Adrian

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