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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, LKLM <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: Kconfig: fix problem in HID menu
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:21:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A111A85.6030508@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090517175617.81323cc1.krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>

On 05/17/2009 05:56 PM, Krzysztof Helt wrote:
> Following syntax does not work properly if there is an options FOO2 depending on the FOO:
> 
> config FOO
> 	tristate "Foo" if EMBEDDED
> 	depends on FUD
> 	default !EMBEDDED
> 
> config FOO2
> 	bool "Foo2"
> 	depends on FOO
> 
> If the EMBEDDED is not selected the FOO option is selected
> and it cannot be unselected.

Uhuh, but that's correct behaviour. We don't want to bother user with
tons of drivers unless he is compiling for embedded. Or am I missing
something?

> The change of the FOO definition:
> 
> config FOO
> 	tristate "Foo" 
> 	depends on EMBEDDED && FUD
> 	default !EMBEDDED
> 
> fixes the issue.

This does something different. You offer regular user to turn it off and
defaults to n for embedded. This is not what we want, I suppose.

> This is likely a bug in Kconfig tool.

In that case, you want to fix the tool, not the configs.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-18  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-17 15:56 Kconfig: fix problem in HID menu Krzysztof Helt
2009-05-18  8:21 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2009-05-18  8:49   ` Krzysztof Helt
2009-05-18  8:56     ` Jiri Slaby

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