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To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: what does select statement mean in Kconfig file?
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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:26:12 +0200
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Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> writes:

> The latter is sometimes hard or impossible to satisfy.  Therefore the
> select statement should be used with care, i.e. only for library-type
> helper code which itself shouldn't depend on further options.

How about depending on common dependency?

Something like

config A
	bool XXX
	depends on ARM

config B
	depends on ARM
	select A


or:

if ARM
	config A
		bool XXX
endif

if ARM
	config B
		select A
endif
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa