Re: Kconfig troubles when using menuconfig - Was: [patch]Re: [linux-usb-devel] linux-2.6.22-rc5-gf1518a0 build #300 failed in zc0301_core.c

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> On 6/23/07, Trent Piepho <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [...]
> > What you have is tristate depends on bool depends on tristate.  The bool
> > between the two tristates "promotes" the first tristate from m to y.
> > [...]
> > Or another way, add the dependencies of the menuconfig to the if statement:
> > diff -r dfbe7cc4e21e drivers/media/video/Kconfig
> > --- a/drivers/media/video/Kconfig       Thu Jun 21 16:02:50 2007 -0700
> > +++ b/drivers/media/video/Kconfig       Fri Jun 22 13:10:43 2007 -0700
> > @@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ menuconfig V4L_USB_DRIVERS
> >         depends on USB
> >         default y
> >
> > -if V4L_USB_DRIVERS
> > +if V4L_USB_DRIVERS && USB
> >
> >  source "drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/Kconfig"
> >
> > Now all the usb drivers will gain USB as a dependency directly and can't be
> > set to something higher than USB.
>
> Ok, so we add this as solution 2.(c) to the reply I just sent to Jan :-)
>
> But I still prefer 2.(b) -- making the config scripts intelligent so that if a
> given "menuconfig FOO depends on BAR", then all the "config BAZ"s
> inside this menuconfig also automatically "depend on" BAR too.

Of course, there currently is no "inside" a menuconfig.  You would have to do
something like make everything inside an "if FOO / endif" gain not just a
dependency on FOO, but also gain a dependency on all of FOO's dependencies.

> This is simpler in the long run because it requires least amount
> (actually none) of redundant typing and would continue to work in
> the future if/when the:
>
> menuconfig FOO
> if FOO
> ...
> endif # FOO
>
> idiom is converted to an:
>
> configmenu FOO
> ...
> endconfigmenu # FOO
>
> kind of idiom ...

Like that I suggested here?
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/524823

Basically, make menuconfig work like menu does, except the menu itself can be
turned on and off.  Instead of having menuconfig work like a config, but with
some kind of "menu" hint.  It seems like the former is more in line with what
menuconfig is actually used for.