On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 06:11:36PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> > The problem is that tristate symbol represent three values.
> > =n => CONFIG_SYMBOL is undefined
> > =y => CONFIG_SYMBOL is defined
> > =m => COMFIG_SYMBOL_MODULE is defined
> >
> > The function split_config does not take into account the
> > different values and 'fixing' this in fixdep is wrong.
> > Because fixdep does not know if the variable is a tristate symbol or not
> > so it can either blindly remove _MODULE (your patch)
> > or each time it encounters _MODULE check for a symbol with and
> > without _MODULE.
>
> What really matters is that CONFIG_SYMBOL changed, one could optimize for
> the COMFIG_SYMBOL_MODULE case, but I don't think it's worth it, especially
> ...
>
> > The better fix is to teach the split_config function that
> > for tristate symbols two files shall be created in the include/config
> > hirachy. So for apm this gets:
> > include/config/apm.h
> > include/config/apm/module.h
>
> if it requires thousands of new inodes for a feature which should be
> rarely used.
>
> > This will make kconfig behave correct the day that someone add a config
> > symbol with a _MODULE suffix.
>
> I'd rather reserve that namespace, if it allows for the simpler version to
> just map all symbols to the basic config symbol name.
OK, I have forwarded Jan's patch for inclusion (the bug-fix part).
Sam
>
> bye, Roman
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