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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
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Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] select FW_LOADER -> depends HOTPLUG
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:15:25 -0300 Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

| On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:16:57PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
| > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:44:11AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
| > > 
| > > I assume Sam thinks in the direction to let a symbol inherit the 
| > > dependencies off all symbols it selects.
| > > 
| > > E.g. in
| > > 
| > > config A
| > > 	depends on B
| > > 
| > > config C
| > > 	select A
| >         depends on Z
| > 
| >   config Z
| >         depends on Y
| > > 
| > > 
| > > C should be treated as if it would depend on B.
| > 
| > Correct. But at the same time I miss some functionality to
| > tell me what a given symbol:
| > 1) depends on
| > 2) selects
| > 
| > It would be nice in menuconfig to see what config symbol
| > that has dependencies and/or side effects. 
| 
| Definately agreed. Not all users want/can go and grep the source 
| tree looking for dependencies of a given 
| symbol.
| 
| Showing the dependencies on menuconfig/xconfig is a user friendly 
| feature. 

xconfig already has a way to do this.  Set all Options (5 of them,
although fewer would probably work).  menuconfig doesn't do this.

What would be even more helpful would be a way to tell *config to
jump from <current location, where a symbol is used> to
<where a symbol is defined>.

--
~Randy