[PATCH] MTD/GPMI : select more modules for GPMI by default
Huang Shijie
b32955 at freescale.com
Sat Dec 31 02:27:36 EST 2011
Hi,
thanks a lot!
> Here is what Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt tells:
>
> select should be used with care. select will force
> a symbol to a value without visiting the dependencies.
:( I ever thought the select will do the dependencies automatically.
I do not like the GPMI depend on the MXS-DMA. It looks very strange when
you do the "make menuconfig".
to Arterm:
Maybe you can drop this patch.
thanks
Huang Shijie
> 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.
>
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