Re: [patch] 2.6.0-test5: serio config broken?

Adrian Bunk
2003-09-12T11:09:12Z

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 04:04:48PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>
> Okay. The following Kconfig illustrates what I claim to be a bug.
> config A
> bool "This is A"
> select B
>
> config B
> bool "This is B"
> # Or, depends C=y
> depends C
>
> config C
> bool "This is C"
>
>
> Running oldconfig will give:
> This is A (A) [N/y] (NEW) y
> This is C (C) [N/y] (NEW) n
> ...
> And in .config:
> CONFIG_A=y
> CONFIG_B=y
> # CONFIG_C is not set
>
> I claim that this should in fact be:
> CONFIG_A=y
> CONFIG_B=y
> CONFIG_C=y

The problem is that select ignores dependencies.

Unfortunately, your proposal wouldn't work easily, consider e.g.

config A
bool "This is A"
select B

config B
bool
depends C || D

config C
bool "This is C"
depends D=n

config D
bool "This is D"

Do you want C or D to be selected?

> Tom Rini

cu
Adrian

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