Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:25:46 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] select FW_LOADER -> depends HOTPLUG |
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:15:25 -0300 Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
| On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:16:57PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: | > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:44:11AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: | > > | > > I assume Sam thinks in the direction to let a symbol inherit the | > > dependencies off all symbols it selects. | > > | > > E.g. in | > > | > > config A | > > depends on B | > > | > > config C | > > select A | > depends on Z | > | > config Z | > depends on Y | > > | > > | > > C should be treated as if it would depend on B. | > | > Correct. But at the same time I miss some functionality to | > tell me what a given symbol: | > 1) depends on | > 2) selects | > | > It would be nice in menuconfig to see what config symbol | > that has dependencies and/or side effects. | | Definately agreed. Not all users want/can go and grep the source | tree looking for dependencies of a given | symbol. | | Showing the dependencies on menuconfig/xconfig is a user friendly | feature.
xconfig already has a way to do this. Set all Options (5 of them, although fewer would probably work). menuconfig doesn't do this.
What would be even more helpful would be a way to tell *config to jump from <current location, where a symbol is used> to <where a symbol is defined>.
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