Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932099Ab0LHXIs (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 18:08:48 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:37019 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756353Ab0LHXIq (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 18:08:46 -0500 Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for December 8 (drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig:422:error: recursive dependency detected!) From: David Woodhouse To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Corentin Chary , sedat.dilek@gmail.com, Matthew Garrett , LKML , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Rothwell Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:08:39 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20101208135105.a8482d46.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> References: <1291801990.5992.105.camel@i7.infradead.org> <20101208174603.GA7107@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20101208135105.a8482d46.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 2.91.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1291849721.5992.145.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: 1046 Lines: 25 On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 13:51 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > I dislike select, but reality is that modules do need to select/enable > library code and minor features sometimes. > > OTOH, where drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig:ACPI_CMPC does "select INPUT" > to enable an entire subsystem is wrong and bad IMO. This is just a deficiency in the tools. The correct answer is to fix the damn tools, not invent this silly 'select' facility which means much the same thing as 'depends on' but is implemented differently. As long ago as the mid-1990s, the Nemesis research OS was using a tcl xconfig tool based on the Linux one, but which would show you the dependencies for an option that was disabled, so you could enable them where you needed to. Rather than just hiding the option completely. -- dwmw2 -- 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/