Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 02:02:35 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?
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On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 04:22:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2007 01:05:37 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> 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?

Exactly.

cu
Adrian

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