Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Nov 2010 16:34:53 -0400 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] drivers: cleanup Kconfig stuff |
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On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 09:46:47PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Mark Brown
> > It did originally but that dependency was removed to allow build > > coverage for non-OMAP users.
> I'm not sure removing that dependency is worth it. There's probably a > lot of code in the kernel that can be built without meeting the > specified dependencies. Maybe there should be a way to differentiate > soft from hard dependencies for this particular use-case. But I guess > for now the lack of dependency should be ok.
It's really useful for subsystem maintainers - it means you can do changes over the subsystem without having to have a build lots and lots of different configs per chip to make sure everything still at least compiles.
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