From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: arnd@arndb.de, sd@queasysnail.net, hannes@stressinduktion.org,
johannes@sipsolutions.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macsec: fix crypto Kconfig dependency
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 12:43:16 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160418.124316.1862068166928198574.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160418104336.GA19175@gondor.apana.org.au>
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 18:43:36 +0800
> Right, the problem is that nothing within crypto ever selects
> CRYPTO since it's also used as a way of hiding the crypto menu
> options.
As far as I understand it, this won't help. Because selects do not
trigger other selects and dependencies.
This is why we always must list all leaf node dependencies with select
statements, rather than just the specific feature one needs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-18 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-17 9:19 [PATCH] macsec: fix crypto Kconfig dependency Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-17 22:52 ` David Miller
2016-04-18 8:02 ` Herbert Xu
2016-04-18 10:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-18 10:43 ` Herbert Xu
2016-04-18 11:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-18 16:43 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-04-18 21:44 ` Stephen Rothwell
2016-04-18 16:04 ` David Miller
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