On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 19:46 +0100, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > DOH. > > Well, it's possible that the correct approach is a mixture. > > Automatically do the trivial cases (recursive selects, dependencies > that are simple or of the form "x && y" etc), and warn about the cases > that aren't trivial (where "not trivial" may not necessarily be about > fundamentally ambiguous ones, but just "complex enough that I won't > even try"). There is still a risk with this approach when the Kconfig isn't entirely correct. For example, on ARM we have (I pushed a patch already): config CPU_32v6K depends on CPU_V6 config CPU_V7 select CPU_32v6K In this simple approach, we end up selecting CPU_V6 when we only need CPU_V7. There other places like this in the kernel. Of course, kbuild could still warn but if people rely on this feature to select options automatically I suspect they would ignore the warnings. -- 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
