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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 13:47:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46503542.50300@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a781481a0705200438s634712e6v957d7085bca7407@mail.gmail.com>

Satyam Sharma wrote:
> On 5/20/07, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>> However you fix it --- don't remove "depends on" or "select".  You can
>> interchange them, but not remove them, unless there wasn't a dependency
>> to begin with.
> 
> They _can_ be removed, with absolutely no build failures at all, because
> of the "default y if ..." on the dependency that is defined in some
> arch/.../Kconfig.

You are right, they can be removed, and the Kconfig files can be turned
into an unmaintainable mess.

	A requires B

Maintainable.

	B serves A

Logically equivalent, yet unmaintainable.
-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-=-=== -=-= =-=--
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-20 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-19 15:15 Sam Ravnborg
2007-05-19 18:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-19 22:17   ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-19 22:49     ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-19 23:09       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-19 23:17         ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-19 23:25           ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-19 23:36             ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-19 23:41               ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-19 23:51                 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-20  0:02                   ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-19 23:48               ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-19 23:55                 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-20  0:13                   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-20  0:19                     ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-20  9:52                       ` Trent Piepho
2007-05-20 10:58                         ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-20 11:23                           ` Trent Piepho
2007-05-20 11:44                             ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-20 19:57                               ` Trent Piepho
2007-05-20 20:12                                 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-20 20:41                                   ` Trent Piepho
2007-05-22 15:13                                     ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-20 18:30                         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-20  0:46       ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-20  0:53         ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-20  1:04           ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-20  8:31             ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-20 11:38               ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-20 11:47                 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2007-05-20 11:57                   ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-20 13:09                     ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-20 13:50                       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-20 14:39                         ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-22 14:53                           ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-22 17:03                             ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-22 17:13                               ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-22 17:38                                 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-22 17:46                                   ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-22 17:54                                     ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-22 17:59                                       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-20 18:23                       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-19 23:05   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-19 23:17     ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-19 23:21       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-19 23:29         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-19 23:32           ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-19 23:23       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-19 23:22     ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-20  0:02       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-20  0:11         ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-20  9:43         ` Russell King
2007-05-20  9:40       ` Russell King
2007-05-20 10:17         ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-05-20 11:07         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-21  0:25 ` Roman Zippel

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