From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>,
Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [patch, -git] input: CONFIG_INPUT_APANEL build fix
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:47:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080430224701.GC2629@anvil.corenet.prv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080430223828.GA31878@elte.hu>
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 12:38:29AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > i'm not suggesting this is your fault in any way - but nevertheless
> > > many other subsystems have to deal with the same Kconfig issues and
> > > they manage to limp along.
> >
> > I believe I see a steady stream of breakage for leds dependencies from
> > all subsystems.
>
> they limp along by adding "depends on NEW_LEDS". 99% of the users will
> use some pre-cooked distro kernel where all these options are turned on,
> so the flattening and coupling of the dependencies is not a real issue
> in practice.
You still did not answer to the main question - do you think we should
revert the commit that actually introduced breakage in the sense that
anything depending on LEDS_CLASS should also add NEW_LEDS dependancy?
That will take care of the problem (as far as LEDs are concerned) for
_all_ subsystems and drivers at once.
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-30 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-30 18:54 [patch, -git] input: CONFIG_INPUT_APANEL build fix Ingo Molnar
2008-04-30 19:04 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-04-30 20:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-30 20:56 ` Roman Zippel
2008-04-30 22:21 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-04-30 21:00 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-04-30 21:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-30 22:26 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-04-30 22:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-30 22:47 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2008-05-01 0:51 ` Roman Zippel
2008-05-01 2:36 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-05-01 6:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-01 1:29 ` Ingo Molnar
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