Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:59:24 +0300
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
       James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] always enable FW_LOADER unless EMBEDDED=y
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:20:05PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 
> > [1] and before anyone restarts the "kconfig is broken - select should 
> >     follow dependencies" FUD: I've seen much talk and zero code for
> >     this, and in my opinion the problem is much more difficult than
> >     it appears at first sight
> 
> I had this crazy idea, Perhaps it would be easier to reverse the problem.
> Introduce a kind of Lazy_Enable mode. Which means config is enabled but
> gets it's use_count bumped up every time someone is dependent on it.
> At the end, for optimization, any Lazy_Enable with zero count, is dropped.
> Is that at all possible in current infrastructure?
> (I admit I never looked at the source)

Wouldn't your "Lazy_Enable" do the same as "select" already does?

> Boaz

cu
Adrian

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