Re: Fwd: Using select in boolean dependents of a tristate symbol

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>]

On Thursday 13 July 2006 18:58, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> > config THRUSTMASTER_FF
> >       bool "ThrustMaster FireStorm Dual Power 2 support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> >       depends on HID_FF && EXPERIMENTAL
> > +       select INPUT_FF_MEMLESS
> >       help
> >         Say Y here if you have a THRUSTMASTER FireStore Dual Power 2,
> >         and want to enable force feedback support for it.
> > 
> > Unfortunately this forces INPUT_FF_MEMLESS to always be built-in,
> > although if HID is a module it could be a module as well. Do you have
> > any suggestions as to how allow INPUT_FF_MEMLESS to be compiled as a
> > module?
> 
> You need to directly include HID into the dependencies, only the direct 
> dependencies for config entry are used for the select.
>

Oh, this indeed works, thanks a lot! And I was thinking I would need to
implement something like "select <expr> as <expr>" in kconfig ;)  

-- 
Dmitry
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