Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat May 19 2007 - 19:25:31 EST


On Sun, 20 May 2007 01:05:37 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Look for example at the last one in drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig:
>
> config MOUSE_ATARI
> tristate "Atari mouse"
> depends on ATARI
> select ATARI_KBD_CORE
>
> This is perfectly correct (the select'ed symbol is only unavailable when
> the dependency can't be fulfilled), and all things to "fix" the warning
> will make it worse.

If ATARI is unset then we shouldn't be generating the "'select' used by
config symbol 'KEYBOARD_ATARI' refers to undefined symbol 'ATARI_KBD_CORE'"
warnings, should we?

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