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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	zippel@linux-m68k.org, jejb <james.bottomley@steeleye.com>
Subject: Re: how to handle indirect kconfig dependencies
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:55:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <455DBF3D.40801@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061116200741.fb607fe4.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> I have a (randconfig) build of 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 with:
[...]
> so the question is:
> (How) can kconfig follow the dependency chain and either
> - prevent this odd config combination or
> - see that 'select DEBUG_FS' implies 'select SYSFS' and then enable SYSFS
> ?
> 
> I don't believe that the right answer is to add
> 	depends on SYSFS
> to DEBUG_READAHEAD.

I know this doesn't concludingly answer your question, but: All of the
various shipped tools to generate .config need to be fixed to recognize
"select" to imply a dependency like "depends on" does.

[...]
> ~Randy [or just kill off select]

Or this. ("select" appears to be useful for dialog driven creation of
.config in cases where developers are able to predetermine preferences
of users --- nothing more and nothing less.)
-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-=-==- =-== =---=
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-17 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-17  4:07 how to handle indirect kconfig dependencies Randy Dunlap
2006-11-17 13:55 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2006-11-20 18:13   ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-20 18:56     ` Stefan Richter
2006-11-20 22:09 ` James Bottomley
2006-11-26  3:46 ` Randy Dunlap

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