Re: [PATCH] staging: ccg: remove two outdated dependencies

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Mar 14 2013 - 18:19:35 EST


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:12:21PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 15:02 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:09:53PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > > Well, now that you somehow managed to review this patch the urge to
> > > clean this line up has suddenly diminished. But maybe you're lucky and
> > > this will not pass Greg.
> >
> > It didn't, please clean it up "properly", I'll drop this patch for now,
> > thanks. :)
>
> The horror is mostly caused by negative dependencies on USB Kconfig
> symbols. Any clue why this driver conflicts with about twenty USB
> related options?

Yes, because it is a horrible thing and needs to be deleted.

Seriously, I had a number of people ask me to delete it last week at the
Linaro event.

Hm, I guess I should just do it, I know it would make the USB developers
much happier, nevermind about your patch, I'll just drop the whole
thing, which will fix your problem in a different way :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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