linux/Documentation/kbuild/Kconfig.select-break
Luis R. Rodriguez 1c199f2878 kbuild: document recursive dependency limitation / resolution
Recursive dependency issues with kconfig are unavoidable due to
some limitations with kconfig, since these issues are recurring
provide a hint to the user how they can resolve these dependency
issues and also document why such limitation exists.

While at it also document a bit of future prospects of ways to
enhance Kconfig, including providing formal semantics and evaluation
of use of a SAT solver. If you're interested in this work or prospects
of it check out the kconfig-sat project wiki [0] and mailing list [1].

[0] http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/kconfig-sat
[1] https://groups.google.com/d/forum/kconfig-sat

Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <jbottomley@odin.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mate Soos <soos.mate@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2015-10-08 15:36:16 +02:00

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# Select broken dependency issue
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#
# Test with:
#
# make KBUILD_KCONFIG=Documentation/kbuild/Kconfig.select-break menuconfig
#
# kconfig will not complain and enable this layout for configuration. This is
# currently a feature of kconfig, given select was designed to be heavy handed.
# Kconfig currently does not check the list of symbols listed on a symbol's
# "select" list, this is done on purpose to help load a set of known required
# symbols. Because of this use of select should be used with caution. An
# example of this issue is below.
#
# The option B and C are clearly contradicting with respect to A.
# However, when A is set, C can be set as well because Kconfig does not
# visit the dependencies of the select target (in this case B). And since
# Kconfig does not visit the dependencies, it breaks the dependencies of B
# (!A).
mainmenu "Simple example to demo kconfig select broken dependency issue"
config A
bool "CONFIG A"
config B
bool "CONFIG B"
depends on !A
config C
bool "CONFIG C"
depends on A
select B