Re: Kconfig warnings on latest GIT

[Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>]

On May 10, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Simon Horman wrote:

> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:56:48AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> > Simon Horman wrote:
> >
> > > > So my question is: in which Kconfig do I define "UCC_FAST_TEMP" and
> > > > "UCC_SLOW_TEMP"?  At first I thought, just put it in drivers/ 
> > > > Kconfig, but
> > > > that Kconfig does nothing but including other Kconfigs.  I  
> > > > believe that if I
> > > > submit a patch that adds "UCC_FAST_TEMP" and "UCC_SLOW_TEMP" to
> > > > drivers/Kconfig, it will be rejected.  Either that, or I'll  
> > > > spend six weeks
> > > > trying to persuade everyone that it's a good idea.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can fix this?
> > > That does seem like a reasonable suggestion, and one that
> > > would probably work well with the other similar problems
> > > that have been introduced sice 2.6.21.
> >
> > Looks like the fix is simpler than I thought.  Instead of having
> >
> > UCC_GETH
> > 	select UCC_FAST
> >
> > I need to do
> >
> > UCC_FAST
> > 	default y if UCC_GETH
>
> I pondered something like that, but I couldn't get it quite right :(
>
> > I'll have a patch that fixes this out later today.
> >
> > I chose the first method because I wanted each individual UCC device
> > driver to select UCC_FAST or UCC_SLOW as appropriate, so that I
> > wouldn't have to update arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/Kconfig every time
> > we add a new UCC driver.  Oh well.

It really seems like the kconfig shouldn't complain if the depends  
isnt satisfied.

- k
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