Re: on builds/randconfigs

[Randy Dunlap]

On 01/12/11 13:58, Len Brown wrote:
>>> These unusable config combinations should be prevented via Kconfig. 
>>> That prevents users from selecting them, which otherwise adds to
>>> our workload and to theirs.  It also prevents false-positives
>>> during our useful randconfig testing.
>>
>> But it is kind of difficult to achieve IMhO.  For example, there are options
>> that are only SELECTed if something else is set, but randconfig doesn't seem
>> to care.

s/randconfig/kconfig/


> Kconfig select needs to be fixed so that it is not possible to
> select something if that something's dependencies are not met.
> 
> This long standing issue is independent of randconfig,
> but Randy can probably attest that a measurable portion
> of the randconfig failures are due to this bug.

Certainly.  At least now we have a kconfig warning on this class of
problem.

-- 
~Randy
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