From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>, "narmstrong@baylibre.com" <narmstrong@baylibre.com>, "masahiroy@kernel.org" <masahiroy@kernel.org>, "Laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com" <Laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>, "leon@kernel.org" <leon@kernel.org>, "davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>, "linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>, "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>, "kieran.bingham+renesas@ideasonboard.com" <kieran.bingham+renesas@ideasonboard.com>, "a.hajda@samsung.com" <a.hajda@samsung.com>, "jonas@kwiboo.se" <jonas@kwiboo.se>, "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, "airlied@linux.ie" <airlied@linux.ie>, "jgg@ziepe.ca" <jgg@ziepe.ca>, "jernej.skrabec@siol.net" <jernej.skrabec@siol.net> Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] Regressions for "imply" behavior change Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 11:12:56 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview] Message-ID: <nycvar.YSQ.7.76.2004161106140.2671@knanqh.ubzr> (raw) In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a1S2x1jnx9Q5B22vX8gBHs0Ztu-znA9hqZ5xp5tRAykGg@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, 16 Apr 2020, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 12:17 PM Jani Nikula > <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 16 Apr 2020, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 5:25 AM Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> wrote: > > >> BTW how about adding a new Kconfig option to hide the details of > > >> ( BAR || !BAR) ? as Jason already explained and suggested, this will > > >> make it easier for the users and developers to understand the actual > > >> meaning behind this tristate weird condition. > > >> > > >> e.g have a new keyword: > > >> reach VXLAN > > >> which will be equivalent to: > > >> depends on VXLAN && !VXLAN > > > > > > I'd love to see that, but I'm not sure what keyword is best. For your > > > suggestion of "reach", that would probably do the job, but I'm not > > > sure if this ends up being more or less confusing than what we have > > > today. > > > > Ah, perfect bikeshedding topic! > > > > Perhaps "uses"? If the dependency is enabled it gets used as a > > dependency. > > That seems to be the best naming suggestion so far What I don't like about "uses" is that it doesn't convey the conditional dependency. It could be mistaken as being synonymous to "select". What about "depends_if" ? The rationale is that this is actually a dependency, but only if the related symbol is set (i.e. not n or empty). > Right. OTOH whoever implements it gets to pick the color of the > bikeshed. ;-) Absolutely. But some brainstorming can't hurt. Nicolas
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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: "a.hajda@samsung.com" <a.hajda@samsung.com>, "airlied@linux.ie" <airlied@linux.ie>, "jernej.skrabec@siol.net" <jernej.skrabec@siol.net>, "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>, "leon@kernel.org" <leon@kernel.org>, "narmstrong@baylibre.com" <narmstrong@baylibre.com>, "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>, "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, "masahiroy@kernel.org" <masahiroy@kernel.org>, "jonas@kwiboo.se" <jonas@kwiboo.se>, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org>, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>, "kieran.bingham+renesas@ideasonboard.com" <kieran.bingham+renesas@ideasonboard.com>, "Laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com" <Laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>, "jgg@ziepe.ca" <jgg@ziepe.ca>, "davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net> Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] Regressions for "imply" behavior change Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 11:12:56 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview] Message-ID: <nycvar.YSQ.7.76.2004161106140.2671@knanqh.ubzr> (raw) In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a1S2x1jnx9Q5B22vX8gBHs0Ztu-znA9hqZ5xp5tRAykGg@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, 16 Apr 2020, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 12:17 PM Jani Nikula > <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 16 Apr 2020, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 5:25 AM Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> wrote: > > >> BTW how about adding a new Kconfig option to hide the details of > > >> ( BAR || !BAR) ? as Jason already explained and suggested, this will > > >> make it easier for the users and developers to understand the actual > > >> meaning behind this tristate weird condition. > > >> > > >> e.g have a new keyword: > > >> reach VXLAN > > >> which will be equivalent to: > > >> depends on VXLAN && !VXLAN > > > > > > I'd love to see that, but I'm not sure what keyword is best. For your > > > suggestion of "reach", that would probably do the job, but I'm not > > > sure if this ends up being more or less confusing than what we have > > > today. > > > > Ah, perfect bikeshedding topic! > > > > Perhaps "uses"? If the dependency is enabled it gets used as a > > dependency. > > That seems to be the best naming suggestion so far What I don't like about "uses" is that it doesn't convey the conditional dependency. It could be mistaken as being synonymous to "select". What about "depends_if" ? The rationale is that this is actually a dependency, but only if the related symbol is set (i.e. not n or empty). > Right. OTOH whoever implements it gets to pick the color of the > bikeshed. ;-) Absolutely. But some brainstorming can't hurt. Nicolas _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-16 15:13 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 100+ 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 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-08 20:27 ` [RFC 1/6] thunder: select PTP driver if possible Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-08 20:27 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-08 20:27 ` [RFC 2/6] net/mlx5e: fix VXLAN dependency Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-08 20:27 ` 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 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-08 21:10 ` kbuild test robot 2020-04-08 21:13 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-08 20:27 ` [RFC 4/6] drm/bridge/sii8620: fix extcon dependency Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-08 20:27 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-10 6:56 ` Andrzej Hajda 2020-04-10 6:56 ` Andrzej Hajda 2020-04-14 15:04 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-14 15:04 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-14 15:37 ` Daniel Vetter 2020-04-14 15:37 ` Daniel Vetter 2020-04-15 6:58 ` Jani Nikula 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 2020-04-08 20:27 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-14 20:17 ` Laurent Pinchart 2020-04-14 20:17 ` Laurent Pinchart 2020-04-14 20:38 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-14 20:38 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-14 20:51 ` Laurent Pinchart 2020-04-14 20:51 ` Laurent Pinchart 2020-04-14 21:10 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-14 21:10 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-15 14:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2020-04-15 14:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2020-04-15 15:18 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-15 15:18 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-15 19:07 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-15 19:07 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-15 21:12 ` Laurent Pinchart 2020-04-15 21:12 ` Laurent Pinchart 2020-04-15 21:22 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-15 21:22 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-16 6:51 ` Daniel Vetter 2020-04-16 6:51 ` Daniel Vetter 2020-04-16 15:17 ` Laurent Pinchart 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 20:27 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-08 20:38 ` [RFC 0/6] Regressions for "imply" behavior change Nicolas Pitre 2020-04-08 20:38 ` Nicolas Pitre 2020-04-08 20:46 ` Saeed Mahameed 2020-04-08 20:46 ` Saeed Mahameed 2020-04-08 20:49 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-08 20:49 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-08 21:17 ` Nicolas Pitre 2020-04-08 21:17 ` Nicolas Pitre 2020-04-08 22:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2020-04-08 22:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2020-04-09 8:41 ` Jani Nikula 2020-04-09 8:41 ` Jani Nikula 2020-04-10 2:40 ` Saeed Mahameed 2020-04-10 2:40 ` Saeed Mahameed 2020-04-10 7:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2020-04-10 7:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2020-04-10 17:13 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2020-04-10 17:13 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2020-04-10 19:04 ` Saeed Mahameed 2020-04-10 19:04 ` Saeed Mahameed 2020-04-14 13:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2020-04-14 13:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2020-04-14 14:27 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-14 14:27 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-14 15:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2020-04-14 15:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2020-04-14 15:25 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-14 15:25 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-14 17:49 ` Saeed Mahameed 2020-04-14 17:49 ` Saeed Mahameed 2020-04-14 18:47 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-14 18:47 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-16 3:25 ` Saeed Mahameed 2020-04-16 3:25 ` Saeed Mahameed 2020-04-16 7:20 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-16 7:20 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-16 10:17 ` Jani Nikula 2020-04-16 10:17 ` Jani Nikula 2020-04-16 12:38 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-16 12:38 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-16 14:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2020-04-16 14:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2020-04-16 15:58 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-16 15:58 ` Arnd Bergmann 2020-04-16 18:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2020-04-16 18:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2020-04-16 18:38 ` Saeed Mahameed 2020-04-16 18:38 ` Saeed Mahameed 2020-04-16 15:12 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message] 2020-04-16 15:12 ` Nicolas Pitre 2020-04-16 18:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2020-04-16 18:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2020-04-16 19:56 ` Andrzej Hajda 2020-04-16 19:56 ` Andrzej Hajda
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