Re: [patch] 2.6.0-test5: serio config broken?

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 04:04:48PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> 
> Okay.  The following Kconfig illustrates what I claim to be a bug.
> config A
> 	bool "This is A"
> 	select B
> 	
> config B
> 	bool "This is B"
> 	# Or, depends C=y
> 	depends C
> 
> config C
> 	bool "This is C"
> 
> 
> Running oldconfig will give:
> This is A (A) [N/y] (NEW) y
> This is C (C) [N/y] (NEW) n
> ...
> And in .config:
> CONFIG_A=y
> CONFIG_B=y
> # CONFIG_C is not set
> 
> I claim that this should in fact be:
> CONFIG_A=y
> CONFIG_B=y
> CONFIG_C=y

The problem is that select ignores dependencies.


Unfortunately, your proposal wouldn't work easily, consider e.g.

config A
	bool "This is A"
	select B

config B
	bool
	depends C || D

config C
	bool "This is C"
	depends D=n

config D
	bool "This is D"


Do you want C or D to be selected?


> Tom Rini

cu
Adrian

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