From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758720Ab2LIRFq (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2012 12:05:46 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:44995 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752904Ab2LIRFp (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2012 12:05:45 -0500 Message-ID: <50C4C4E5.5010100@suse.cz> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:05:41 +0100 From: Michal Marek User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Bolle Cc: Helmut Jarausch , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: nouveau driver fails to build References: <1353681769.29421.0@numa-i> <1353684679.1420.7.camel@x61.thuisdomein> <1353690805.30841.0@numa-i> <1353692960.1420.26.camel@x61.thuisdomein> In-Reply-To: <1353692960.1420.26.camel@x61.thuisdomein> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 23.11.2012 18:49, Paul Bolle wrote: > The puzzling part > is that ACPI_VIDEO will only be selected (ie, made into a 'y') if all > dependencies of that select statement are 'y' too. (Note that these > dependencies are identical to the dependencies of ACPI_VIDEO's config > entry. That can be no coincidence.) Well, you basically answered your question. If ACPI_VIDEO depends on anything that is 'm', then it cannot be set to 'y'. Michal