Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755701Ab0FDMkF (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2010 08:40:05 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:36073 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752786Ab0FDMkD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2010 08:40:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100604003607.GC24687@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <20100603074548.GA12104@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20100603181010.GA25779@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20100603185333.GD25779@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1275593742.23384.48.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <20100603194559.GF25779@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20100604003607.GC24687@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> From: Grant Likely Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 06:39:40 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ludUfEHJvRZdSvrs880ODXiWLnY Message-ID: Subject: Re: ARM defconfig files To: Paul Mackerras Cc: Linus Torvalds , Russell King , Daniel Walker , Kevin Hilman , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, Catalin Marinas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1204 Lines: 25 On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 01:31:07PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> Now, the above is a _trivial_ one. And it's actually broken, because I >> should not have forced CONFIG_USB (it depends on CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT). > > Seems to me that the brokenness of select is the main technical issue > stopping us getting rid of the defconfigs. ?If there was a way to tell > the Kconfig machinery "I want CONFIG_USB on, you figure out what has > to be enabled for that to make sense" then it would all work. ?But > that's a hard problem (and may possibly have multiple solutions). Yes, I think you're right. If select was 'smart', then the whole issue kind of goes away. But as you say, that is a hard problem. In the mean time, I'd be satisfied with a solution that punted out an error at configure time if select requirements did not get met. I should look at the patch Catalin posted. g. -- 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/