Re: [2.6 patch] sound drivers select'ing ISAPNP must depend on PNP && ISA

[Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 05:07:48PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:

> > In sound/isa/Kconfig, select ISAPNP and depend on ISAPNP are intermixed, 
> > resulting in funny behaviour. (Soundcarts get selectable if other 
> > soundcards are selected).
> > 
> > This patch changes the "depend on ISAPNP"s to select.
> >...
> 
> I like the idea of this patch, but it brings to more drivers to a 
> violation of the "if you select something, you have to ensure that the 
> dependencies of what you select are fulfilled" rule causing link errors 
> with invalid .config's.

That should be mentioned in kconfig-language.txt. OTOH, the build system
should automatically propagate the dependencies. I asume that should be
easy, except for having the time to implement that.


BTW: How can you select something to be at least a module?
BTW2: In bool options, depending on FOO seems to be equal to depending on 
      FOO!=n. Is this assumption correct?

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