On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 01:31:07PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> Now, the above is a _trivial_ one. And it's actually broken, because I >> should not have forced CONFIG_USB (it depends on CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT). > > Seems to me that the brokenness of select is the main technical issue > stopping us getting rid of the defconfigs. If there was a way to tell > the Kconfig machinery "I want CONFIG_USB on, you figure out what has > to be enabled for that to make sense" then it would all work. But > that's a hard problem (and may possibly have multiple solutions). Yes, I think you're right. If select was 'smart', then the whole issue kind of goes away. But as you say, that is a hard problem. In the mean time, I'd be satisfied with a solution that punted out an error at configure time if select requirements did not get met. I should look at the patch Catalin posted. g. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
