On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > EMBEDDED is misnamed. It means "those who think that they know enough > to use all of the power of kconfig." > Some people spell that EXPERT etc. > Or it means "let me shoot myself in the foot." > > So HOTPLUG, INPUT, FW_LOADER, etc. should not be modified by Aunt Tillie, > but you and I can play with them. We really should go and rename it then :-/ > > > for SERIO: > > config SERIO > tristate "Serial I/O support" if EMBEDDED || !X86 > default y > > Experts can modify it. !X86 can modify it. > It's usually needed on X86 for keyboard controllers etc., > but if one sets EMBEDDED, you can muck up your config and not be > able to use the keyboard. > > I don't know where the !S390 comes from, but it's not surprising. Anyway, to avoid having these spit out all the time, I'll see if I can make it not warn if the dependency was on EMBEDDED/EXPERT. I'll try to work on it when I have time. Note, the config I used was originally generated by randconfig. Thanks, -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
