From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754404AbWLRSza (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:55:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754405AbWLRSz3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:55:29 -0500 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:42549 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754403AbWLRSz3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:55:29 -0500 X-Originating-Ip: 24.148.236.183 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:46:27 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Adrian Bunk cc: zippel@linux-m68k.org, Linux kernel mailing list , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] kconfig: remove the unused "requires" syntax In-Reply-To: <20061218180447.GF10316@stusta.de> Message-ID: References: <20061218180447.GF10316@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-14.754, required 5, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 2.05) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:41:59AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > Remove the note in the documentation that suggests people can use > > "requires" for dependencies in Kconfig files. > >... > > Considering that noone uses it, what about the patch below to also > remove the implementation? ... big snip ... i have no problem knocking out of the parser anything related to "depends" or "requires." in fact, i did note in earlier patch submissions that i was just cleaning the Kconfig files but i was leaving the parser alone, and someone else was welcome to take care of that. if the kbuild folks are good with this, i certainly have no objection. rday p.s. i didn't look closely enough to see if your patch took out support for both "depends" *and* "requires". at this point, neither of those are necessary anymore -- it's all "depends on" except for three remaining Kconfig files.