Re: your old menuconfig patch series, and select

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Monday 2008-03-24 05:05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> In your menuconfig patch series to convert menu into menuconfig,
> you used "if <new menuconfig symbol" quite often.
>
> That causes serious issues with "select".  E.g. currently "select
> LEDS_CLASS" does not work, because it is inside a "if NEW_LEDS".
> [...]
> What's the best solution for this?  Drop the "if <menuconfig symbol>"
> and add lots of "depends on <menuconfig symbol>"?  Or hunt down every
> symbol selected inside an if and add the required select for the
> menuconfig symbol?

It "does not work" either if LEDS_CLASS is put outside of the if block
and instead gets a "depends on LEDS_CLASS".

So I am not sure what the problem you perceive really is, other than
"enabling A selecting B depending on (turned off) C"-is-allowed. :)
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