Re: [patch, -git] input: CONFIG_INPUT_APANEL build fix

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Wed Apr 30 2008 - 18:27:03 EST


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:20:29PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I thought the many years old rule for Linux kernel is to fix the
> > issues properly and not turn kernel into patchwork of crappy code.
>
> correct, except if that would mean breakage for users.
>
> > If we want to fix the randconfi issue I'd rather revert commit
> > 66242f7ec531953fbc2f4040c5ffe1f1ffe6c5c9 for now (they only thing it
> > did was beautify menuconfig look) and wait for Kconfig to be fixed. It
> > is not driver's task to track through all dependencies.
>
> yep ... just dont export our internal crappiness to testers and users.
>

So is there objections to reverting the commit above? This will
fix all drivers that are now depend on LEDS_CLASS bit not specify
NEW_LEDS dependency directly?

> i'm not suggesting this is your fault in any way - but nevertheless many
> other subsystems have to deal with the same Kconfig issues and they
> manage to limp along.
>

I believe I see a steady stream of breakage for leds dependencies
from all subsystems.

--
Dmitry
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