Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:41:57 +0300 | From | Boaz Harrosh <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] always enable FW_LOADER unless EMBEDDED=y |
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Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:20:05PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> [1] and before anyone restarts the "kconfig is broken - select should >>> follow dependencies" FUD: I've seen much talk and zero code for >>> this, and in my opinion the problem is much more difficult than >>> it appears at first sight >> I had this crazy idea, Perhaps it would be easier to reverse the problem. >> Introduce a kind of Lazy_Enable mode. Which means config is enabled but >> gets it's use_count bumped up every time someone is dependent on it. >> At the end, for optimization, any Lazy_Enable with zero count, is dropped. >> Is that at all possible in current infrastructure? >> (I admit I never looked at the source) > > Wouldn't your "Lazy_Enable" do the same as "select" already does? >
No, I mean, for example, ISCSI_TCP will just "depends" on SCSI_ISCSI_ATTRS but SCSI_ISCSI_ATTRS is Lazy_Enable. So a user can always choose ISCSI_TCP if he wants to. At the end if there are no users for SCSI_ISCSI_ATTRS it is dropped.
Lazy_Enable is for these modules that say: "I have no purpose of my own but only serve other needs"
Theoretically it looks like a simpler problem. (Pull vs Push)
>> Boaz > > cu > Adrian >
Just my $0.017 Boaz
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