James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The select problem is that the kbuild select directive will turn a > symbol on without reference to its dependencies. This, in turn, means > that either selected symbols must select their dependencies, or that > people using select have to be aware of the selected symbol's dependency > and build those dependencies into their symbol (leading to duplication > and the possibility of getting the dependencies out of sync). We use > select for the scsi transport classes, so we run into this problem in > SCSI quite a lot. > > I think the correct fix is to make a symbol that selects another symbol > automatically inherit all of the selected symbol's dependencies. You may want to have a look at a patch I proposed some time ago, which at just warns of selecting options with unmet dependencies. I think it's a better approach that forcing the selection of the dependencies: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/16/413 -- Catalin -- 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
