Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:13:19 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: how to handle indirect kconfig dependencies |
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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
cu Adrian
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