From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>
Cc: sedat.dilek@gmail.com, Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for December 8 (drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig:422:error: recursive dependency detected!)
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:53:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1291801990.5992.105.camel@i7.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimjVY-6OwRfFUzUbmyacM81M35wf5qDWqAouUYb@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 10:12 +0100, Corentin Chary wrote:
>
> I don't really see how it's a recursive dependency, but maybe it's
> time to clean this KConfig.
> What is our current policy about that ?
>
> I think we should *depends* on important subsystem (ACPI, INPUT, ...)
> and select obscure things so
> that the driver does not get lost if you don't enable the leds.
A better policy is: "NEVER USE SELECT".
--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-08 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-08 8:17 Sedat Dilek
2010-12-08 9:12 ` Corentin Chary
2010-12-08 9:18 ` Sedat Dilek
2010-12-08 9:20 ` Berg, Johannes
2010-12-08 9:28 ` Sedat Dilek
2010-12-08 9:51 ` Sedat Dilek
2010-12-08 9:53 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2010-12-08 10:12 ` Sedat Dilek
2010-12-08 17:46 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-12-08 21:51 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-12-08 22:12 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-12-08 22:37 ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2010-12-08 23:08 ` David Woodhouse
2010-12-08 23:31 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-12-08 23:35 ` David Woodhouse
2010-12-08 23:49 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-12-08 23:58 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-12-08 23:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-12-08 23:41 ` David Woodhouse
2010-12-08 23:52 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-12-08 17:31 ` Randy Dunlap
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