Re: [patch, -git] input: CONFIG_INPUT_APANEL build fix

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:56:05PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > > Thank you Ingo. Isn't this a Kconfig issue though? I know that Roman 
> > > is not willing to fix SELECT to evaluate the whole dependency chain, 
> > > but in this case it is "depens on" that does not evaluate properly...
> > 
> > yes and no. It can be fixed in Kconfig but i'm not going to flame yet 
> > another person about long-existing unfixed infrastructure bugs ;-)
> 
> You don't have to, because this simply is no infrastructure bug...
> Don't blame Kconfig for abusing select for something it was never 
> intendend for. There is no bug!
>

That is all fine and dandy except that apanel does not select LEDs, it
depends on LEDS_CLASS.
 
> In this case there is now a mixture of depends and selects on leds. First 
> decide whether led support should be automatically included or the driver 
> is only available when led support is enabled. In the first case it's 
> probably better to create LEDS_SUPPORT, which then again selects 
> everything necessary.
>

The decision is made, the driver depends on LEDs except that it is not
working.

-- 
Dmitry