Trent Piepho wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Basically you replace >> >> A... depends on B >> >> by >> >> B... serves A >> >> The latter variant is a pain to maintain. Dependencies change over >> time, therefore we should note the dependency always at the dependent >> option, not at the serving option. > > The problem is that "B" will not exist on some architectures. If you put the > dependency with "A", the dependency still exists when "B" is gone. If the > dependency is with "B", it nicely goes away when "B" is gone.
If "make whateverconfig" works correctly,... >> Iterating upwards and downwards the dependency graph is the duty of >> "make snafuconfig", not of the maintainers. ...multi-level dependencies are no problem for it. There is nothing wrong with A... depends on B B... depends on C # CONFIG_C is not set -> A is unavailable. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-= =-=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/