From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] Regressions for "imply" behavior change
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:05:36 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200416180536.GW5100@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a3HwFYKfZftm2fWE=Lzi486rXpMBwjy1F4oohYU2+o7-g@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 05:58:31PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 4:52 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 02:38:50PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 12:17 PM Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > > Of course, this is all just talk until someone(tm) posts a patch
> > > > actually making the change. I've looked at the kconfig tool sources
> > > > before; not going to make the same mistake again.
> > >
> > > Right. OTOH whoever implements it gets to pick the color of the
> > > bikeshed. ;-)
> >
> > I hope someone takes it up, especially now that imply, which
> > apparently used to do this, doesn't any more :)
>
> The old 'imply' was something completely different, it was more of a
> 'try to select if you can so we can assume it's there, but give up
> if it can only be a module and we need it to be built-in".
But it seems to have done this as a side-effect, and drivers were
relying on that, otherwise this series wouldn't exist..
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-16 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-08 20:27 [RFC 0/6] Regressions for "imply" behavior change Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-08 20:27 ` [RFC 1/6] thunder: select PTP driver if possible Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-08 20:27 ` [RFC 2/6] net/mlx5e: fix VXLAN dependency Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-08 20:27 ` [RFC 3/6] LiquidIO VF: add dependency for PTP_1588_CLOCK Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-08 20:27 ` [RFC 4/6] drm/bridge/sii8620: fix extcon dependency Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-10 6:56 ` Andrzej Hajda
2020-04-14 15:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-14 15:37 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-04-15 6:58 ` Jani Nikula
2020-04-08 20:27 ` [RFC 5/6] drm/rcar-du: fix selection of CMM driver Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-14 20:17 ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-04-14 20:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-14 20:51 ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-04-14 21:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-15 14:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-04-15 15:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-15 19:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-15 21:12 ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-04-15 21:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-16 6:51 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-04-16 15:17 ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-04-08 20:27 ` [RFC 6/6] drm/rcar-du: fix lvds dependency Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-08 20:38 ` [RFC 0/6] Regressions for "imply" behavior change Nicolas Pitre
2020-04-08 20:46 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-08 20:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-08 21:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2020-04-08 22:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-09 8:41 ` Jani Nikula
2020-04-10 2:40 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-10 7:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-04-10 17:13 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-10 19:04 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-14 13:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-14 14:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-14 15:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-14 15:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-14 17:49 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-14 18:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-16 3:25 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-16 7:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-16 10:17 ` Jani Nikula
2020-04-16 12:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-16 14:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-16 15:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-16 18:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2020-04-16 18:38 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-16 15:12 ` Nicolas Pitre
2020-04-16 18:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-16 19:56 ` Andrzej Hajda
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