[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/7] Introduce the _AVAILABLE mechanism
Arnout Vandecappelle
arnout at mind.be
Tue Oct 30 23:48:06 UTC 2012
On 10/31/12 00:35, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
>> > There is still an alternative: patch Kconfig to "properly" handle
>> > select/depend transitivity. I.e., when a symbol selects another symbol,
>> > this implies that all dependencies of the other symbol are inherited. Did
>> > anyone ever investigate the feasibility of such an feature?
> Yes. Both Thomas and I have had a look (but separately). I got an headache
> each time I tried to understand the kconfig code. IIRC, Thomas' experience
> was a bit in the same vein.
>
> My point of view is that we must consider (unless proven otherwise) that
> modifying kconfig to handle this select/depends mess is not possible.
I completely agree. But if it had been easy to do, it might have been
preferable over adding verbosity to Config.in.
In that case, I guess I'll have to take the time to review those patches
before Saturday :-)
Regards,
Arnout
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