On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:34:06PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Thanks for fixing this config, Ingo. > > > > I agree, our build system can handle "depends", > > but "select" does not deliver on what it advertises, > > making it a trap for programmers. > > Hm, this portion of Kconfig is a trap in a way indeed - on the other > hand it is also a useful tool and the simplistic approach to > disallow select altogether is a step backwards. > > IIRC either Vegard or Steve has come up with a patch series that > improved Kconfig to warn about problem selects while still allowing > the simple ones. That would deflect most of the bad uses while still > allowing the good uses. Not sure what happened to that series. Steve came up with a patch that warned about problematic select only in a defconfig. It did not warn properly for all the problematic selects. I ran (as usual) out of time last time I looked :-( I would likely need a full day or two to come up with somthing, but these days finding an hour is not easy. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
