Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752522Ab0KDScK (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2010 14:32:10 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:60659 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752345Ab0KDScI (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2010 14:32:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=RUdBNbguk2s3Gnyz61+xFOXGfSispykONTitjLeI3SU0nKiM7gyHE+DYj4ULNSixss TJGi7ai3uDsDNuuZEXcbMRpN3nJDxBYVs1cQkUQd7YVugspId6HlcGlC9ntgov3qxCzC hbDG3HhPfPrlawtcajjzSrUKqkkgqBZeyVPjg= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4CD2F735.2040903@redhat.com> References: <20101009224041.GA901@sepie.suse.cz> <4CD1E232.30406@redhat.com> <4CD22627.2000607@redhat.com> <4CD29493.5020101@redhat.com> <20101104101910.920efbed.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <4CD2F735.2040903@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 14:32:07 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: REGRESSION: Re: [GIT] kconfig rc fixes From: Arnaud Lacombe To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Randy Dunlap , Michal Marek , Linus Torvalds , kyle@redhat.com, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Media Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1458 Lines: 52 Hi, On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > [...] > Yes, but this makes things worse: it will allow compiling drivers that Kernel > will never use, as they won't work without an I2C adapter, and the I2C adapter > is not compiled. > > Worse than that: if you go into all V4L bridge drivers, that implements the I2C > adapters and disable them, the I2C ancillary adapters will still be compiled > (as they won't return to 'n'), but they will never ever be used... > > So, no, this is not a solution. > > What we need is to prompt the menu only if the user wants to do some manual configuration. > Otherwise, just use the selects done by the drivers that implement the I2C bus adapters, > and have some code to use those selected I2C devices. > These is an easy solution: doing as `Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt' say it should be done: config MODULES bool "modules ?" default y config AUTO bool "AUTO" config IVTV tristate "IVTV" select WM42 if AUTO menu "TV" depends on !AUTO config WM42_USER tristate "WM42" select WM42 endmenu config WM42 tristate default n - Arnaud -- 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/