On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:22:57PM +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > This patch adds new kind of dependencies between kconfig symbols, > and new kconfig keyword 'apply' for them. > > 'apply' works mostly like 'select', but it allows to disable target symbol. > Thus target symbol will be either disabled or reachable from current symbol. > > This method allows to implement optional dependencies without introducing new > kconfig symbol for each pair of connected kconfig options. I don't really understand what the point of this new keyword is, but I wonder why you chose PTP Hardware Clocks as your Guinea pig. As discussed on the netdev list [1][2], the consensus was that if a MAC driver has a PHC, then it should always be compiled in. And BTW, please CC netdev for PHC patches. Thanks, Richard 1. http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=135173341101960 2. http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg215379.html -- 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
