Re: [kconfig] update: results of some syntactical checks

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Sat, 02 Nov 2013 20:20:54 +0100
Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 00:03 +0200, Martin Walch wrote:
> > drivers/media/common/siano/Kconfig:21-26
> > > config SMS_SIANO_DEBUGFS
> > >	bool "Enable debugfs for smsdvb"
> > >	depends on SMS_SIANO_MDTV
> > >	depends on DEBUG_FS
> > >	depends on SMS_USB_DRV
> > >	depends on CONFIG_SMS_USB_DRV = CONFIG_SMS_SDIO_DRV
> > 
> > The last line adds the dependency CONFIG_SMS_USB_DRV = CONFIG_SMS_SDIO_DRV.
> > This expression does not look sound as those two symbols are not declared
> > anywhere. So, the two strings CONFIG_SMS_USB_DRV and CONFIG_SMS_SDIO_DRV
> > are compared, yielding always 'n'. As a result, SMS_SIANO_DEBUGFS will never
> > be enabled.
> 
> Those are obvious typos. Still present in v3.12-rc7. Perhaps you'd like
> to send the trivial patch to fix this?

Yes, it is a typo...

> 
> > Probably, it was meant to say something like
> > >	depends on SMS_USB_DRV = SMS_SDIO_DRV

But this is not the right thing to do. The Kconfig logic here is that it
should depends on !SMS_SDIO_DRV or SMS_USB_DRV = SMS_SDIO_DRV.

I remember I made a patch like that while testing some things with this
driver, but it seems that I forgot to push. I might have it somewhere on
my test machine.



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Cheers,
Mauro
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