From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757485AbYEFG1d (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 02:27:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751190AbYEFG1Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 02:27:25 -0400 Received: from smtp5.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.39]:35868 "EHLO smtp5.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751154AbYEFG1Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 02:27:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 09:26:14 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: Roman Zippel Cc: Vegard Nossum , Ingo Molnar , Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: warn about complex selects Message-ID: <20080506062614.GG1544@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <20080504054044.GA32030@damson> 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 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 -- "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