On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:47:55AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >
> > Would it be possible for kconfig to check for invalid usage of select?
> >
> > Like you should not use select to enable something that has
> > dependencies. However, that would fail in case both the selector option
> > and the selected option depend on the same.
>
> Well, at least in theory you may actually want to select something that
> has dependencies, even if you don't want to select the dependencies.
>
> For example, some feature may be enabled by default on some architecture
> or with some config. Example:
>
> bool SUPPORT_FEATURE
> default y
> depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> depends on !EMBEDDED
> depends on X86
>
> which is just another way of saying
>
> bool SUPPORT_FEATURE
> default X86 && !EMBEDDED && EXPERIMENTAL
Such constructs without a prompt are for a different usecase than what
you have in mind, there wouldn't be EXPERIMENTAL or EMBEDDED in the
dependencies, this is used for stuff like
config X86_HT
bool
depends on SMP
depends on (X86_32 && !X86_VOYAGER) || X86_64
default y
And that's usually not the kind of symbol that should get selected.
In reality your example would be:
config SUPPORT_FEATURE
bool "support feature" if EMBEDDED
default y
depends on X86 && EXPERIMENTAL
> and it's still possible that some code wants to do a
>
> select SUPPORT_FEATURE
>
> because the dependency isn't a _code_ dependency, it's a default-value
> dependency.
>...
I'd be more concerned about dependencies that are used to make the
kconfig UI better.
Dependencies on options like NETDEV_1000 are not code dependencies.
> Linus
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