[PATCH] Remove remaining references of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Mon Aug 1 12:40:35 EDT 2011


On Mon, 1 Aug 2011, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:

> Moreover, this approach is deemed to fail. The current symbol
> namespace is tied to an arch, so whenever you do:
> 
> arch/arm/Kconfig:
> config FOO
>     bool
> 
> config BAZ
>     bool
> 
> drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig
> config BAR
>     depends on ARM && FOO
>     select BAZ
> 
> You will end up triggering the warning for every ARCH != ARM...

You can keep a state for those symbols with regard to their level of 
reference.  Surely if ARM isn't true, BAZ is not "actively" referenced 
in the end.


Nicolas



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