Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:09:57 -0700
From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
       Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au>,
       Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.6.0-test5: serio config broken?
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 05:04:49PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 07:52:07AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> >...
> > With 'oldconfig' / 'config', you could loop until the user selects one
> > of them.  Or, default to the first in the or series that can be
> > selected.
> 
> What if all possible dependencies aren't available because their 
> dependencies aren't fulfilled?

It's one of those recursive problems.  But so long as we don't get
circular dependancies (which would be a bug anyhow, yes?) it should at
least be solvable.

> 
> I agree that there's a problem, but I think a good solution is 
> non-trivial.

Agreed.

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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