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SubjectRe: how to handle indirect kconfig dependencies
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 02:55:09PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > I have a (randconfig) build of 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 with:
> [...]
> > so the question is:
> > (How) can kconfig follow the dependency chain and either
> > - prevent this odd config combination or
> > - see that 'select DEBUG_FS' implies 'select SYSFS' and then enable SYSFS
> > ?
> >
> > I don't believe that the right answer is to add
> > depends on SYSFS
> > to DEBUG_READAHEAD.
>
> I know this doesn't concludingly answer your question, but: All of the
> various shipped tools to generate .config need to be fixed to recognize
> "select" to imply a dependency like "depends on" does.
>...

BTW:
"All of the various shipped tools ... need to be fixed" is a bit
misleading since one of the features of the 2.6 kconfig is that this
code is shared by all tools.

> Stefan Richter

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Adrian

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