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Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 21:17:44 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: Ingo, no more kconfig patches
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> || Kconfig might be extended to make dependencies easier to manage for 
> || developers but until that is implemented you have to craft your 
> || driver's dependencies with the current tools in a way that doesnt 
> || break the build.
> 
> and that's exactly what happens with Roman's patch: a Kconfig 
> subsystem design bug (its inability to properly propagate the 
> dependencies of select's) is worked around in the driver space: by the 
> LEDS_CORE driver config introduction and no user-visible.
                                       breakage remains --^