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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Salar Ali Mumtaz <salaarali@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xconfig: Display dependency values in debug_info
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:02:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50117812.5080302@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+jpPM=nrbpDJpaka6xAp4dbEOQjJrtwQWtUXwi_gGS9b4yK-A@mail.gmail.com>

On 07/26/2012 09:19 AM, Salar Ali Mumtaz wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply.
> 
> This adds the current values to the dependencies in the debug_info, which you get when you select "Show debug info" 
> from the popup you get after you right click. For some values, there is no help available. For those, there is usually 
> information in the debug_info that is not displayed normally.
> 
> COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF
> 
> //This is added by debug_info
> type: boolean
> reverse dep: (IA32_EMULATION n && X86_64 n ) =n
> unknown property: symbol
>     dep: ( COMPAT n && BINFMT_ELF y ) =n
> //This is added by debug_info
> 
> defined at fs/Kconfig.binfmt:26
> 
> There is no help available for this option.
> Symbol: COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF [=n]
> Type : boolean
> Selected by: IA32_EMULATION [=n] && X86_64 [=n]
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 


Yes, it does help.  Thanks.


For BINFMT_ELF (not your example of COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF)
in Linux 3.5, I see this:


BEFORE PATCH:

type: boolean
unknown property: symbol
    dep: MMU && (BROKEN || !FRV)
prompt: Kernel support for ELF binaries
    dep: MMU && (BROKEN || !FRV)
default: y
    dep: MMU && (BROKEN || !FRV)

defined at fs/Kconfig.binfmt:1



AFTER PATCH:

type: boolean
unknown property: symbol
    dep: ( MMU y && (BROKEN n || !FRV FRV) ) =y
prompt: Kernel support for ELF binaries
    dep: ( MMU y && (BROKEN n || !FRV FRV) ) =y
default: y
    dep: ( MMU y && (BROKEN n || !FRV FRV) ) =y

defined at fs/Kconfig.binfmt:1




The added y/n/m are clear, but the "!FRV FRV" is confusing,
isn't it?


-- 
~Randy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-26 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-25 22:56 [PATCH] xconfig: Display dependency values in debug_info Salar Ali Mumtaz
2012-07-25 23:18 ` Randy Dunlap
     [not found]   ` <CA+jpPM=nrbpDJpaka6xAp4dbEOQjJrtwQWtUXwi_gGS9b4yK-A@mail.gmail.com>
2012-07-26 17:02     ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2012-07-31 16:51       ` Salar Ali Mumtaz
2012-07-31 18:58       ` [PATCH v2] " Salar Ali Mumtaz
2012-07-31 20:21         ` Randy Dunlap
2012-08-02  4:20           ` Salar Ali Mumtaz
2012-08-02  4:47             ` Randy Dunlap
2012-08-07 16:08       ` [PATCH] " Salar Ali Mumtaz
2012-08-07 16:55         ` Randy Dunlap
2012-08-09 18:54           ` Salar Ali Mumtaz
2012-08-11  0:39             ` Randy Dunlap
2012-08-15 16:32               ` Salar Ali Mumtaz
2012-08-15 17:29                 ` Randy Dunlap

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