Re: [PATCH v1 03/12] crypto: qat - address recursive dependency when fw signing is enabled

[Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>]

On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 02:09 +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:45:30PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > [...] so, probably, almost
> > all .config files have FW_LOADER set. So I think, except for some corner
> > cases, either converting all "select FW_LOADER" to "depends on
> > FW_LOADER" or simply dropping  "select FW_LOADER" all together, should
> > be fine.
> 
> Well, that makes sense. I just dropped all "select FW_LOADER" entries
> on next-20150518, then I enabled everything with 'make allyesconfig'
> and then went into menuconfig to disable FW_LOADER. The build worked.
> 
> Going to try a few more build matrix combinations and send patches to
> do away with this.
> 
> > Those corner cases should then be handled on a case by case basis. 

Having slept on this, it occurred to me a randconfig could hit those
corner cases. (Make that will hit them, actually.) Of course, one might
argue that randconfig and EXPERT's advice, "Only use this if you really
know what you are doing.", are at odds. Which opens another can of
worms: how much do we care about .config files in which randconfig
visited the kernels darker corners? Just enough, I'm afraid.

So it seems I've wasted your time by suggesting to drop those selects.
And now I wonder what trouble using "depends on" will generate here...


Paul Bolle