Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

Satyam Sharma
2007-05-20T00:11:41Z

On 5/20/07, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 04:22:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 May 2007 01:05:37 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Look for example at the last one in drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig:
> > >
> > > config MOUSE_ATARI
> > > tristate "Atari mouse"
> > > depends on ATARI
> > > select ATARI_KBD_CORE
> > >
> > > This is perfectly correct (the select'ed symbol is only unavailable when
> > > the dependency can't be fulfilled), and all things to "fix" the warning
> > > will make it worse.
> >
> > If ATARI is unset then we shouldn't be generating the "'select' used by
> > config symbol 'KEYBOARD_ATARI' refers to undefined symbol 'ATARI_KBD_CORE'"
> > warnings, should we?
>
> Exactly.

But I suspect we do wish to get rid of the bogus warnings? (similar to
other places in arch/.../Kconfig's where such cases are handled) ...
_that_ (suppressing these four bogus warnings) was the purpose of that
patch in the first place .....