Re: Kconfig doesn't support select on choices (was Re: [GIT PULL] nohz: Adaptively stop the tick, finally)

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2013/4/25 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>:
> >
> > * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> >         depends on VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
> >> >
> >> > It should _really_ select both the RCU and the CPU time accounting model
> >> > automatically!
> >>
> >> Yeah I know. I have yet to fix that in Kconfig (it's a Kconfig limitation).
> >
> > Why cannot we simply select it and its dependencies, explicitly, for the
> > time being? Something like:
> >
> >         depends on 64BIT
> >         select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
> >         select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
> >
> > 90% of the .config's have VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN turned off, because it's
> > a default-off feature - so dynticks-full is effectively hidden from the
> > large majority of testers...
> 
> Whatever we do, it seems that select does not work with choices.
> 
> Michal, we are running into an issue where a Kconfig option needs to 
> select CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN but this latter option is part of 
> a choice menu so it doesn't work. As a result we are forced to use a 
> "depends on" and this hides the high level option we are interested in 
> (here full dynticks) behind its low level dependency. How hard do you 
> think it would be to fix this? I tried something that worked half-way 
> but I quickly got lost in the Kconfig maze.

While it's not an ideal solution, we could try to create three bools out 
of the choice options, as a workaround?

Thanks,

	Ingo