Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add CONFIG symbol as module attribute

Luis Chamberlain
2019-07-11T23:22:52Z

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 04:07:27PM -0700, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 3:25 PM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 08:57:58PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >
> > But again, this is a separate problem. The one I am addressing, on
> > behalf of Cristina, is a subspace, dedicated towards *hardware*
> > functionality.
>
> Hmm...maybe this isn't what I am looking for then. I am interested in
> the problem of figuring out what dependencies I need to select to turn
> on a desired config symbol (which is obviously a separate issue),

It isn't directly. the problem statement is different, and
for that I do recommend checking out the kconfig-sat effort.

It only indirectly relates in that we already know our kconfig
semantics need work, and I do think that the underlying problem
in this thread slowly strives towards addressing kconfig semantics
for modules, associating one main kconfig symbol with one module.

I have no evidence for this though. But since there are users who can
gain from it, I don't see any issues from embracing it.

> and
> I am interested in associating symbols with a config symbol and then
> ensuring that symbol is exercised. Basically, I want a way to make
> sure my tests actually get run without a human looking at them; I feel
> like what you are working on might help with this latter issue, but I
> am not 100% sure. It sounds like it is not your primary goal in any
> case.

Nope, this topic only ralates to yours in the semantics case.

Luis