Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 May 2007 20:48:21 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] select and dependencies in Kconfig |
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On Wed, 16 May 2007, Al Viro wrote: > > BTW, this kind of situation happens often enough, so how about doing > the following: teach kconfig that if FOO selects BAR and BAR depends > on <expr>, we should act as if FOO had explicit depends on <expr>.
Sounds sane. I wonder if there are any non-obvious gotchas, and I worry that the indirect dependency ends up getting really confusing at times, but I don't think the notion is broken - just worrying about how to *show* this to explain what is going on when people say "why can't I select X".
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