From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757706AbbJHNht (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2015 09:37:49 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:39637 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757617AbbJHNhq (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2015 09:37:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 15:37:41 +0200 From: Michal Marek To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org, jbottomley@odin.com, geert@linux-m68k.org, pebolle@tiscali.nl, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, tiwai@suse.de, yann.morin.1998@free.fr, corbet@lwn.net, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, roberto@dicosmo.org, zack@upsilon.cc, mcgrof@suse.com, soos.mate@gmail.com, skl@det.ua.pt, iouliia@det.ua.pt, biere@jku.at, julia.lawall@lip6.fr, chidaph@gmail.com, wasowski@itu.dk, bergert@chalmers.se, mgorman@suse.de, vegard.nossum@gmail.com, kconfig-sat@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] kbuild: document recursive dependency limitation / resolution Message-ID: <20151008133741.GA14213@sepie.suse.cz> References: <1438200556-13842-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <1444259793-32486-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1444259793-32486-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 04:16:33PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" > > Recursive dependency issues with kconfig are unavoidable due to > some limitations with kconfig, since these issues are recurring > provide a hint to the user how they can resolve these dependency > issues and also document why such limitation exists. > > While at it also document a bit of future prospects of ways to > enhance Kconfig, including providing formal semantics and evaluation > of use of a SAT solver. If you're interested in this work or prospects > of it check out the kconfig-sat project wiki [0] and mailing list [1]. > > [0] http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/kconfig-sat > [1] https://groups.google.com/d/forum/kconfig-sat > > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven > Cc: James Bottomley > Cc: Josh Triplett > Cc: Paul Bolle > Cc: Herbert Xu > Cc: Takashi Iwai > Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" > Cc: Michal Marek > Cc: Jonathan Corbet > Cc: Mate Soos > Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org > Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez Applied to kbuild.git#kconfig, thanks. Michal