On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 00:04 +0100, Grant Likely wrote: >> - It still doesn't resolve dependencies. A solver would help with this. >> For the time being I work around the problem by running the generated >> config through 'oldconfig' and looking for differences. If the files >> differ (ignoring comments and generateconfig_* options) after oldconfig, >> then the <board>_defconfig target returns a failure. (but leaves the >> new .config intact so the user can resolve it with menuconfig). This >> way at least the user is told when a Kconfig fragment is invalid. > > It's not a solver but I'm pushing a patch to warn on selecting symbols > with unmet dependencies so that you can select further symbols (manual > solving). The patch is in linux-next but you also can grab it from: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-2.6-cm.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=5d87db2d2a332784bbf2b1ec3e141486f4d41d6f sfr and I were talking about your patch the other day. Just warning on incomplete dependencies is enough to make it actually workable for me (without my ugly post-processing step). I was very happy to hear that it is in linux-next. Last missing piece is being able to do "select FOO = n", which Stephen is currently working on. g. -- 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
