Re: Hardware dependencies in Kconfig

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Apr 15 2014 - 00:50:51 EST


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 03:59:11PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
> Maybe I'm overly grumpy. Still, it's frustrating to see Kconfig
> entries that clearly say "blahblah found on foo ARM chip" in the help
> with no "depends on ARM" (not meaning to pick on ARM). I would like
> to think there is some balance that could be found here.

Yes, that would make me grumpy, perhaps a few developers could be
auditing the new Kconfig items of every kernel around -rc3 timeframe to
ensure that they don't do stuff like this...

thanks,

greg k-h
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