Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

Stefan Richter
2007-05-20T11:48:17Z

Satyam Sharma wrote:
> On 5/20/07, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>> However you fix it --- don't remove "depends on" or "select". You can
>> interchange them, but not remove them, unless there wasn't a dependency
>> to begin with.
>
> They _can_ be removed, with absolutely no build failures at all, because
> of the "default y if ..." on the dependency that is defined in some
> arch/.../Kconfig.

You are right, they can be removed, and the Kconfig files can be turned
into an unmaintainable mess.

A requires B

Maintainable.

B serves A

Logically equivalent, yet unmaintainable.
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Stefan Richter
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