Re: [PATCH] Kconfig fix (BLK_DEV_FD dependencies)

2005-09-06 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > # there's a glue for PC-like FDC > allow BLD_DEV_FD > > If you insist on having dummy config around allow/select, I don't see any > real benefits in using "allow" form... It has to be in some context, otherwise Kconfig can't tell whether it bel

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig fix (BLK_DEV_FD dependencies)

2005-09-06 Thread viro
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 05:05:33PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > We could go for your "allow" form, but what else would need it? USB gadget > > stuff with its "must have at most one low-level driver, high-level drivers > > should be allowe

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig fix (BLK_DEV_FD dependencies)

2005-09-06 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We could go for your "allow" form, but what else would need it? USB gadget > stuff with its "must have at most one low-level driver, high-level drivers > should be allowed only if a low-level one is present"? RTC mess is better > solved in other

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig fix (BLK_DEV_FD dependencies)

2005-09-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * the same is true for subarchitectures of arm/mips/ppc - hell, even > for m68k, except that there we don't get new ones. I wouldn't count on that... Coldfire with MMU, where are you? ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig fix (BLK_DEV_FD dependencies)

2005-09-06 Thread viro
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:52:34PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > I'm not really a big fan of such dummy symbols, those whole point is to > only enable dependencies, but are otherwise unsused. > The basic problem is similiar to selects, that one has to grep the whole > Kconfig to find out what modi

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig fix (BLK_DEV_FD dependencies)

2005-09-06 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sanitized and fixed floppy dependencies: split the messy dependencies for > BLK_DEV_FD by introducing a new symbol (ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC), making > BLK_DEV_FD depend on that one and taking declarations of ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC > to arch/*/Kconfig.

[PATCH] Kconfig fix (BLK_DEV_FD dependencies)

2005-09-05 Thread viro
Sanitized and fixed floppy dependencies: split the messy dependencies for BLK_DEV_FD by introducing a new symbol (ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC), making BLK_DEV_FD depend on that one and taking declarations of ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC to arch/*/Kconfig. While we are at it, fixed several obvious cases when BLK_