Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:43:38 +0300
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, fritz@isdn4linux.de, kkeil@suse.de,
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       mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ISDN: make ICN not auto-grab port 0x320
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:26:19PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> On 12-08-08 15:08, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:30:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>>> I think the boot option is the way, if at all.
>>>
>>> Because the config option isn't very usable.  What's to stop someone
>>> from doing `make allyesconfig' and then menually editing the .config so
>>> it's no longer truly an allyesconfig .config?
>>>
>>> otoh, if is't purely a manual setting rather than some automagic thing
>>> then it might be workable.  CONFIG_INGO :)
>>
>> Write the required settings into a file and use KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG.
>
> Found those, but seems unable to express the "depends on BROKEN_BOOT if  
> FOO=y" method that's currently used.
>
> Yes, might admittedly not be considered a huge problem and perhaps we  
> could just ship an allyes.config (and same allrandom.config) but it's  
> not nice to spread information about a single symbol over various files  
> like that.

The dependencies we express in kconfig are already pretty complicated, 
and that is continuously causing problems.

Stuffing more stuff into kconfig for such an exotic developer-only use 
case is not a good idea.

And as already said, tomorrow someone might want to boot an allyesconfig 
kernel on a Pentium-MMX...

> Currently, we have a tristate that turns into a y/n bool if !MODULES.  
> What would be real nice here is a tristate that turns into a m/n bool if  
> !RANDOM, where allyesconfig and randconfig would pre-select RANDOM.

allyesconfig is not random.

> If I'm not mistaken, that's currently not possible...
> 
> Rene

cu
Adrian

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