Re: [PATCH 06/13] kconfig: print all locations when we see a recursive dependency

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Sun Jan 18 2009 - 15:52:42 EST


On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:55:00AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> > It is nessesary to know all locations when trying to track
> > a recursive dependency. So print out all locations for each symbol.
>
> The problem is that this is little more than a better grep, although
> kconfig knows exactly what went wrong, but this info is scattered all over
> the stack.
> We could either return more info to print more than just the symbol or
> maintain more info while traversing the tree. The patch below does the
> latter. The patch could use some small cleanups, so it's not final yet.

Hi Roman.

Have you had time to look more into this?

Sam
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