Re: [PATCH] Revert "kconfig: Temporarily disable dependency warnings"

[Catalin Marinas]

On 25 November 2010 18:09, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Catalin Marinas
> <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Now, commenting on your patches, you added a new statement, 'visible
>> if...' for menus. Can we not change it to something like:
>>
>> -menu "I2C Algorithms"
>> - Â Â Â depends on !I2C_HELPER_AUTO
>> +menu "I2C Algorithms" if !I2C_HELPER_AUTO
>>
> no because if_expr are translated internally in term of dependency,
> which we don't want.

That's correct but I was wondering whether we could change this kind
of 'if' to a visibility attribute or a weaker dependency and avoid
'select' warnings. This way we wouldn't introduce new keywords to the
kconfig language.

-- 
Catalin
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