Re: Surprising Kconfig depends semantics

From: Roman Zippel
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 10:18:52 EST


Hi,

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> CONFIG_SERIO=m with CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y shouldn't be a valid
> combination.
>
> The correct solution is most likely a
> default y if INPUT=y && INPUT_KEYBOARD=y && SERIO=y
> default m if INPUT!=n && INPUT_KEYBOARD!=n && SERIO!=n

This is probably the easiest solution:

default INPUT_KEYBOARD && SERIO

(INPUT_KEYBOARD already depends on INPUT)

> The semantics that in
>
> config FOO
> tristate
> default y if BAR
>
> FOO will be set to y if BAR=m is a bit surprising.

Why?

bye, Roman

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