Re: [PATCH] kconfig: warn about complex selects

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 05:43:32AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Roman,

>...
> It's not an impossible problem, but it's not trivial either, so that I 
> haven't spend any time on it and rather would like to spend the energy on 
> fixing the problem properly instead of working around it. And the problem 
> BTW isn't select itself, the problem is that all the Kconfig dependencies 
> have grown and become more complex, so it's becoming increasingly more 
> difficult to maintain and to use them - select was never meant to solve 
> this problem...

what do you consider the best solution?

Can we get it solved in kconfig?

Or should kconfig stay the same and use the pattern we already use
with SSB_POSSIBLE?

Or is there some better solution?

> bye, Roman

cu
Adrian

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