From f8a745942b1b7f052cb76bb8a893d12cb6329c84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jarek Poplawski Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:01:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] docs: note about select in kconfig-language.txt A warning note from Sam Ravnborg about kconfig's select evilness, dependencies and the future (slightly corrected). Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski Cc: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Roman Zippel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt index 536d5bfbdb8d..fe8b0c4892cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt @@ -98,6 +98,15 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax). times, the limit is set to the largest selection. Reverse dependencies can only be used with boolean or tristate symbols. + Note: + select is evil.... select will by brute force set a symbol + equal to 'y' without visiting the dependencies. So abusing + select you are able to select a symbol FOO even if FOO depends + on BAR that is not set. In general use select only for + non-visible symbols (no promts anywhere) and for symbols with + no dependencies. That will limit the usefulness but on the + other hand avoid the illegal configurations all over. kconfig + should one day warn about such things. - numerical ranges: "range" ["if" ] This allows to limit the range of possible input values for int -- 2.20.1