From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932894AbWKQNzM (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:55:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932543AbWKQNzM (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:55:12 -0500 Received: from hp3.statik.TU-Cottbus.De ([141.43.120.68]:48358 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755098AbWKQNzK (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:55:10 -0500 Message-ID: <455DBF3D.40801@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:55:09 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061030 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Dunlap CC: lkml , zippel@linux-m68k.org, jejb Subject: Re: how to handle indirect kconfig dependencies References: <20061116200741.fb607fe4.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20061116200741.fb607fe4.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/