[RFC PATCH] Kconfig: Enable Kconfig fragments to be used for defconfig

[Grant Likely]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Grant Likely wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Catalin Marinas
>> <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 19:46 +0100, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > DOH.
>> >>
>> >> Well, it's possible that the correct approach is a mixture.
>> >>
>> >> Automatically do the trivial cases (recursive selects, dependencies
>> >> that are simple or of the form "x && y" etc), and warn about the cases
>> >> that aren't trivial (where "not trivial" may not necessarily be about
>> >> fundamentally ambiguous ones, but just "complex enough that I won't
>> >> even try").
>> >
>> > There is still a risk with this approach when the Kconfig isn't entirely
>> > correct. For example, on ARM we have (I pushed a patch already):
>> >
>> > config CPU_32v6K
>> >        depends on CPU_V6
>> >
>> > config CPU_V7
>> >        select CPU_32v6K
>> >
>> > In this simple approach, we end up selecting CPU_V6 when we only need
>> > CPU_V7. There other places like this in the kernel.
>> >
>> > Of course, kbuild could still warn but if people rely on this feature to
>> > select options automatically I suspect they would ignore the warnings.
>>
>> In my first patch, I made Kconfig problems errors instead of warnings.
>>  That would prevent people from ignoring them.
>
> ACK.

It would also flush out any current Kconfig dependency issues.

g.