Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:40:05 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kconfig/build question..
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:55:32PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> > So what I want to do and what I think Kbuild can't do is:
> > 
> > if CONFIG_AGP=n then CONFIG_DRM can be n,m,y
> > if CONFIG_AGP=m then CONFIG_DRM can be m but not y
> > if CONFIG_AGP=y then CONFIG_DRM can be m,y
> 
> Do you really want to say that DRM can't be disabled if AGP is enabled?
> Otherwise this should do it:
> 
> 	depends on AGP || AGP=n

I dislike this solution.

consider:
AGP=n
DRM=y

If the user then adds modular AGP to his kernel this will cause DRM=m 
which might cause problems if he tries to use these modules.

I'm still of the opinion that adding a module shoudn't change the 
static kernel.

> bye, Roman

cu
Adrian

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