Messages in this thread | | | From | Lasse Collin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] Squashfs: Add XZ compression configuration option | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:37:23 +0200 |
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On 2010-12-10 Phillip Lougher wrote: > Lasse Collin wrote: > > On 2010-12-09 Phillip Lougher wrote: > >> +config SQUASHFS_XZ > >> + bool "Include support for XZ compressed file systems" > >> + depends on SQUASHFS > >> + default n > >> + select XZ_DEC > > > > Should "select XZ_DEC" be replaced with "depends on XZ_DEC"? XZ_DEC > > requires CRC32, so if "select XZ_DEC" is used, there needs to be > > also "select CRC32". > > XZ_DEC selects CRC32, kbuild handles these nested selects quite > happily, so if something selects XZ_DEC it knows it has to also > select CRC32.
OK, I had misunderstood the notice about "select" and dependencies in Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt.
> Depends on has quite different semantics to selects. If SQUASHFS_XZ > was made to depend on XZ_DEC then the option simply won't appear > unless the user knew to select XZ_DEC first (as it's default n). > This would prove extremely confusing, and probably lead to most > people thinking Squashfs didn't have XZ support, which is somewhat > undesirable.
Good point. I always keep the inactive options visible in xconfig so I missed this. I will need to update my XZ boot-time support patch to use "select" instead of "depends on" too. Thanks!
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