From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org,
kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [RFC] select and dependencies in Kconfig
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 20:48:21 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705152046070.3890@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070516033335.GH4095@ftp.linux.org.uk>
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Al Viro wrote:
>
> BTW, this kind of situation happens often enough, so how about doing
> the following: teach kconfig that if FOO selects BAR and BAR depends
> on <expr>, we should act as if FOO had explicit depends on <expr>.
Sounds sane. I wonder if there are any non-obvious gotchas, and I worry
that the indirect dependency ends up getting really confusing at times,
but I don't think the notion is broken - just worrying about how to *show*
this to explain what is going on when people say "why can't I select X".
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-16 3:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-15 19:36 [PATCH] missing dependencies for USB drivers in input Al Viro
2007-05-16 3:33 ` [RFC] select and dependencies in Kconfig Al Viro
2007-05-16 3:48 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-05-16 14:20 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-16 15:31 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-16 8:38 ` Russell King
2007-05-16 14:24 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-16 23:30 ` Timur Tabi
2007-05-17 0:16 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-17 0:32 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-18 3:38 ` Roman Zippel
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