Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 May 2005 00:53:54 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [kbuild-devel] select of non-existing I2C* symbols |
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On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 08:20:50PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > Shouldn't kconfig exit with an error if a not available symbol gets > > selected? > No. There are meny configurations where we select a symbol that is > only visible in some configurations. > > Several possibilities exists: > 1) Silently ignore SELECT SYMBOL when SYMBOL is undefined > 2) Warn - as we do today > 3) Error out as you suggest > > Option 1) is preferable for 'make oldconfig' simply because target group > here do not care. But it would be nice to know when one do a typing > error in SELECT. So one *config target should continue to warn about it.
I'd prefer 3) and fix up all problems.
E.g. i the case of the I2C* select's the current warnings seem to indicate possible configurations that do not compile.
> Sam
cu Adrian
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