Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764969AbXESXZa (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 19:25:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757048AbXESXZX (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 19:25:23 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:37359 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758503AbXESXZW (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 19:25:22 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 16:22:39 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Sam Ravnborg , LKML , Roman Zippel Subject: Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus? Message-Id: <20070519162239.1bcb03d6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070519230537.GI6291@stusta.de> References: <20070519151523.GA26724@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20070519110944.2a52061e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070519230537.GI6291@stusta.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 846 Lines: 22 On Sun, 20 May 2007 01:05:37 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote: > Look for example at the last one in drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig: > > config MOUSE_ATARI > tristate "Atari mouse" > depends on ATARI > select ATARI_KBD_CORE > > This is perfectly correct (the select'ed symbol is only unavailable when > the dependency can't be fulfilled), and all things to "fix" the warning > will make it worse. If ATARI is unset then we shouldn't be generating the "'select' used by config symbol 'KEYBOARD_ATARI' refers to undefined symbol 'ATARI_KBD_CORE'" warnings, should we? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/