[PATCH] drm/usb: select USB_SUPPORT in Kconfig

Sachin Kamat sachin.kamat at linaro.org
Fri Aug 17 08:42:27 PDT 2012


Hi Dave,

What is your opinion about this patch?

On 15 August 2012 01:27, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:12:22PM +0530, Sachin Kamat wrote:
>>
>> In general what you suggested seems to be the right thing to do.
>> However in this particular case, making this "depends on" creates
>> recursive dependencies
>> and probably that is the reason Dave Airlie decided to make it "select USB" (?)
>>
>
> Probably, yes. Trying to fix this resulted in a race through Kconfig
> entries throughout the kernel. Given that your patch is probably ok,
> though this should really be fixed properly.
>
> Sascha
>
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Sachin


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