Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] drivers: cleanup Kconfig stuff

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 09:46:47PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Mark Brown

> > It did originally but that dependency was removed to allow build
> > coverage for non-OMAP users.

> I'm not sure removing that dependency is worth it. There's probably a
> lot of code in the kernel that can be built without meeting the
> specified dependencies. Maybe there should be a way to differentiate
> soft from hard dependencies for this particular use-case. But I guess
> for now the lack of dependency should be ok.

It's really useful for subsystem maintainers - it means you can do
changes over the subsystem without having to have a build lots and lots
of different configs per chip to make sure everything still at least
compiles.
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