Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:26:44 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues |
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> > But we'll first have to make 'select' to actually work, right? It > currently doesn't resolve the dependencies of the selected configs, so it > will just produce some very broken config.
We could restrict "select" to only select symbols with no dependencies, or *exactly* the same dependencies as the symbol containing the select.
So we could have something like:
config FEDORA select WANT_TMPFS
config WANT_TMPFS bool
config TMPFS defbool y if WANT_TMPFS
This is a pattern used today in many places. But fixing up all the current select XXX would not be trivial... I have no idea how many of the select we have today that would fail the above semantic restrictions - but I guess it is a lot.
We could also come up with something new like:
config FEDORA require TMPFS require EXT4 = m require EXT3 = y
This would set TMPS to y if TMPFS dependencies are met. And EXT3 to y and EXT4 to m if their dependencies are met.
This should be more or less the same as setting the value to y/m in the user interface, which is only possible if the value is visible.
Sam
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