From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: balbi@ti.com, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kconfig "softdepends" idea
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:40:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130430114004.GA15804@merkur.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <517FA68B.20001@ti.com>
> SHOW_ALL_DRIVERS" is not very descriptive. I'm not sure if that matters,
> though. One doesn't need to read the Kconfig files every day =).
>
> But presuming most of the drivers would use that, it would add quite a
> bit of repetition to the Kconfig files. Well, ok, I have no idea how
> many drivers have dependencies that could be removed.
>
> So SHOW_ALL_DRIVERS sounds quite an easy solution to this.
Someone suggested to add symbols that are only set yo "y" for allyesconfig or allmodconfig.
This would be what you actuayl require here as what you are after is better
build coverage.
But we should not annouyt the user just to get better build coverage - which
is why hiding irrelevant symbols is good.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-30 11:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-30 9:52 Tomi Valkeinen
2013-04-30 10:24 ` Sam Ravnborg
2013-04-30 10:33 ` Felipe Balbi
2013-04-30 11:10 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2013-04-30 11:40 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2013-04-30 12:01 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2013-04-30 11:36 ` Sam Ravnborg
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