Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753711Ab1FIPXx (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:23:53 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:36873 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751685Ab1FIPXw (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:23:52 -0400 Message-ID: <4DF0E584.2030101@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:23:48 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc15 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Jones CC: Matthew Garrett , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: CONFIG_EFI should select CONFIG_RELOCATABLE References: <1307629964-31658-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> <4DF0DAAB.7010005@zytor.com> <4DF0DB8D.5080207@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4DF0DB8D.5080207@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 563 Lines: 16 On 06/09/2011 07:41 AM, Peter Jones wrote: >> >> Can we make this a depends on instead of select? > > Seems weird to me - when you're configuring the kernel, you're more likely > to know that you want EFI than to remember that that requires relocation. > Yes, but "select" is handled very poorly by Kconfig. -hpa -- 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/