On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 13:29 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On 10/27/14 06:13, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: >> > I also think the 'depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE || >> > BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=n' pattern is quite... interesting (i.e. sounds >> > like a hack to me =). >> >> It does exactly what is needed and it is used in many places in kernel >> Kconfig files. > > Is there any reason you can't do: > > depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE != m That's not the same thing. The FOO || FOO=n allows for all options, but forbids it being a module when the option depending on it is built-in. Obviously something that's built-in can't depend on something built as a module. BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
