Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754655Ab0LHJxg (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 04:53:36 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:48743 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754405Ab0LHJxe (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 04:53:34 -0500 Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for December 8 (drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig:422:error: recursive dependency detected!) From: David Woodhouse To: Corentin Chary Cc: sedat.dilek@gmail.com, Matthew Garrett , LKML , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Rothwell , Randy Dunlap Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:53:09 +0000 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 2.91.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1291801990.5992.105.camel@i7.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 811 Lines: 21 On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 10:12 +0100, Corentin Chary wrote: > > I don't really see how it's a recursive dependency, but maybe it's > time to clean this KConfig. > What is our current policy about that ? > > I think we should *depends* on important subsystem (ACPI, INPUT, ...) > and select obscure things so > that the driver does not get lost if you don't enable the leds. A better policy is: "NEVER USE SELECT". -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation -- 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/