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authorBernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>2008-10-10 13:14:15 +0000
committerBernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>2008-10-10 13:14:15 +0000
commit7738ddaa1197c6201886e1c8f6837af5c2c47611 (patch)
tree12e2672ee9e34031fce0c334913ab7a4cb3e2026 /extra/config/kconfig-language.txt
parent9c2d269cfa77cf10eeb9acb24f5eab084a66644a (diff)
- pull kconfig from linux-2.6.27
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diff --git a/extra/config/kconfig-language.txt b/extra/config/kconfig-language.txt
index 649cb8799..c412c2458 100644
--- a/extra/config/kconfig-language.txt
+++ b/extra/config/kconfig-language.txt
@@ -104,14 +104,15 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax).
Reverse dependencies can only be used with boolean or tristate
symbols.
Note:
- select is evil.... select will by brute force set a symbol
- equal to 'y' without visiting the dependencies. So abusing
- select you are able to select a symbol FOO even if FOO depends
- on BAR that is not set. In general use select only for
- non-visible symbols (no prompts anywhere) and for symbols with
- no dependencies. That will limit the usefulness but on the
- other hand avoid the illegal configurations all over. kconfig
- should one day warn about such things.
+ select should be used with care. select will force
+ a symbol to a value without visiting the dependencies.
+ By abusing select you are able to select a symbol FOO even
+ if FOO depends on BAR that is not set.
+ In general use select only for non-visible symbols
+ (no prompts anywhere) and for symbols with no dependencies.
+ That will limit the usefulness but on the other hand avoid
+ the illegal configurations all over.
+ kconfig should one day warn about such things.
- numerical ranges: "range" <symbol> <symbol> ["if" <expr>]
This allows to limit the range of possible input values for int
@@ -376,27 +377,3 @@ config FOO
limits FOO to module (=m) or disabled (=n).
-
-Build limited by a third config symbol which may be =y or =m
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-A common idiom that we see (and sometimes have problems with) is this:
-
-When option C in B (module or subsystem) uses interfaces from A (module
-or subsystem), and both A and B are tristate (could be =y or =m if they
-were independent of each other, but they aren't), then we need to limit
-C such that it cannot be built statically if A is built as a loadable
-module. (C already depends on B, so there is no dependency issue to
-take care of here.)
-
-If A is linked statically into the kernel image, C can be built
-statically or as loadable module(s). However, if A is built as loadable
-module(s), then C must be restricted to loadable module(s) also. This
-can be expressed in kconfig language as:
-
-config C
- depends on A = y || A = B
-
-or for real examples, use this command in a kernel tree:
-
-$ find . -name Kconfig\* | xargs grep -ns "depends on.*=.*||.*=" | grep -v orig
-