Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:35:44 +0200 | From | Michal Januszewski <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] uvesafb: select connector in Kconfig |
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On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 08:23:41AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> There are 2 problems with this. > > a. CONNECTOR depends on NET, but select won't enable NET, so if > NET is not enabled otherwise, CONNECTOR still won't build. > This is a longstanding select/kconfig issue. > > b. CONNECTOR depends on NET, so if select did follow the depends > chain and enable NET, it would be enabling the networking subsystem, > which is something that should not be done quietly. > > select should only be used for enabling small library-like code > (if even then). Avoid it whenever possible.
OK, thanks for pointing this out. Let's keep the original dependency on CONNECTOR then.
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