Re: [RFC v1] tree-wide: remove "select FW_LOADER" uses

[Josh Triplett]

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:55:17PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 14:43 -0700, josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Ideally, someone should teach Kconfig to handle recursive dependencies,
> 
> I'm probably reading too much in this remark, but how should it handle
> that other than returning an error because the configuration it's fed
> makes it run in circles?

I don't mean cyclic dependencies (for which Kconfig should just report
an error, ideally including the full list of symbols forming the cycle).

I mean that Kconfig should do recursive dependency resolution.  If B
depends on A, and C depends on B, I should be able to turn on C
directly and have B and A enabled.

As an intermediate measure, it'd be *really* handy to be able to browse
in the curses UI directly from a symbol to the symbols it depends on to
quickly enable/disable them, rather than having to look at the list of
dependencies of a symbol, search for that symbol, remember the path the
search showed, and browse there manually.

- Josh Triplett
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