From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755138AbYEDAuw (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2008 20:50:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750885AbYEDAun (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2008 20:50:43 -0400 Received: from smtp5.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.39]:58572 "EHLO smtp5.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750698AbYEDAum (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2008 20:50:42 -0400 Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 03:49:43 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: Krzysztof Halasa Cc: Ingo Molnar , Dmitry Torokhov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Ingo, no more kconfig patches Message-ID: <20080504004943.GC5838@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <20080430230100.GK29330@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080501025234.GE27574@elte.hu> <20080501115923.GX29330@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080503191445.GF5292@elte.hu> <20080503202416.GR5838@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080503214750.GU5838@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080503222943.GX5838@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:37:47AM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes: > > > FB_SGIVW requires X86_VISWS and it's selected automatically. > > > > (which is not good if you want a kernel that runs on a PC) > > Not sure what do you mean, it currently seem to "depend" on X86_VISWS: > > config FB_SGIVW > tristate "SGI Visual Workstation framebuffer support" > depends on FB && X86_VISWS > select FB_CFB_FILLRECT > select FB_CFB_COPYAREA > select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT Unless I misunderstand your proposal you want to resolve dependencies reversely. And if you want to only do this for select's: FB_SGIVW could also be select'ed. > > Why do we have to bother users with the MII option at all? > > > > "E1000E=m and TULIP=m but MII=y" works, but it doesn't really make > > sense. > > (Obviously it assumes both TULIP and E1000E required MII which is not > exactly the case) > > But it makes a perfect sense, I can have modular drivers for (few) > hardware devices (just in case I want to rmmod etc) but most of the > kernel may be not modular. It would be nice if the Kconfig ask me if > I want to "select" the dependency Y or M, even if there is only one > way to make "select" dependencies happy (not counting "Y vs "M"). Getting the cases that really matter working would already be hard enough... > Krzysztof Halasa cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed