Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 15:34:28 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for December 8
 (drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig:422:error: recursive dependency detected!)
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On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:08:39 +0000 David Woodhouse wrote:

> 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.


xconfig has options that show all symbols.  I use that most of the time,
but I bet that most people do not.

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