On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 09:54 +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 13:29 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >> On 10/27/14 06:13, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> >> > I also think the 'depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE ||
> >> >
On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 13:29 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 10/27/14 06:13, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> > I also think the 'depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE ||
> > BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=n' pattern is quite... interesting (i.e. sounds
> > like a hack to me =).
>
> It does exactly what is needed and
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 13:29 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 10/27/14 06:13, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
>> > I also think the 'depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE ||
>> > BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=n' pattern is quite... interesting (i.e. sounds
>> > like a
On 10/27/14 06:13, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> On 27/10/14 13:59, Jani Nikula wrote:
>
>>> While doing 'depends on' instead of 'select' is an "easy" fix for this,
>>> I do dislike it quite a bit. It's a major pain to go around the kernel
>>> config, trying to find all the dependencies that a
On 27/10/14 13:59, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> While doing 'depends on' instead of 'select' is an "easy" fix for this,
>> I do dislike it quite a bit. It's a major pain to go around the kernel
>> config, trying to find all the dependencies that a particular driver
>> wants. If I need fb-foobar, I
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> On 18/10/14 00:13, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt warns to use select with care,
>> and in general use select only for non-visible symbols and for symbols
>> with no dependencies, because select will force a symbol to a
On 23/10/14 11:10, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> If we want to make BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE into a library thing then I
> guess we could do that, but we must then also drag it out of all the other
> meta options to make sure it's always available. No need I think to ditch
BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE only
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:02:26AM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> On 18/10/14 00:13, Jani Nikula wrote:
> > Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt warns to use select with care,
> > and in general use select only for non-visible symbols and for symbols
> > with no dependencies, because select
On 18/10/14 00:13, Jani Nikula wrote:
> Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt warns to use select with care,
> and in general use select only for non-visible symbols and for symbols
> with no dependencies, because select will force a symbol to a value
> without visiting the dependencies.
>
>
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:13:23AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt warns to use select with care,
> and in general use select only for non-visible symbols and for symbols
> with no dependencies, because select will force a symbol to a value
> without visiting
Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt warns to use select with care,
and in general use select only for non-visible symbols and for symbols
with no dependencies, because select will force a symbol to a value
without visiting the dependencies.
Select has become particularly problematic,
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