[PATCH 1/2] ARM: BCM: Do not select CONFIG_MTD_NAND_BRCMNAND

[Gregory Fong]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 June 2015 at 18:25, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This reverts 7dc95b40f599293aedf30432749ad25b51549041 ("ARM: BCM: Enable
>> NAND support for iProc SoCs") since it creates an unmet dependency for
>> MTD_NAND_BRCMNAND which depends on MTD and MTD_NAND, this results in the
>> following build failure for brcmnand:
>
> This commit message doesn't make too much sense to me. If
> MTD_NAND_BRCMNAND really depends on MTD and MTD_NAND then there
> couldn't be this problem you described.
>
> Maybe MTD_NAND_BRCMNAND is *missing* that dependency?

Per Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt: "select will force a
symbol to a value without visiting the dependencies. By abusing select
you are able to select a symbol FOO even if FOO depends on BAR that is
not set."

I believe this is what is happening here.