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From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] always enable FW_LOADER unless EMBEDDED=y
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:20:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <484F98C5.3040202@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080611082320.GM11685@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> [1] and before anyone restarts the "kconfig is broken - select should 
>     follow dependencies" FUD: I've seen much talk and zero code for
>     this, and in my opinion the problem is much more difficult than
>     it appears at first sight
> 

I had this crazy idea, Perhaps it would be easier to reverse the problem.
Introduce a kind of Lazy_Enable mode. Which means config is enabled but
gets it's use_count bumped up every time someone is dependent on it.
At the end, for optimization, any Lazy_Enable with zero count, is dropped.
Is that at all possible in current infrastructure?
(I admit I never looked at the source)

Boaz

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-11  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-10 16:04 [2.6 patch] always enable FW_LOADER unless EMBEDDED=y Adrian Bunk
2008-06-10 16:24 ` Greg KH
2008-06-10 18:12   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-06-10 21:28     ` Greg KH
2008-06-11  8:23       ` Adrian Bunk
2008-06-11  9:20         ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2008-06-11  9:59           ` Adrian Bunk
2008-06-11 11:41             ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-06-11 18:20         ` Greg KH
2008-06-11 19:38           ` Adrian Bunk

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