Commit f8a74594 authored by Jarek Poplawski's avatar Jarek Poplawski Committed by Linus Torvalds

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: default avatarJarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 09736bd3
...@@ -98,6 +98,15 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax). ...@@ -98,6 +98,15 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax).
times, the limit is set to the largest selection. times, the limit is set to the largest selection.
Reverse dependencies can only be used with boolean or tristate Reverse dependencies can only be used with boolean or tristate
symbols. 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" <symbol> <symbol> ["if" <expr>] - numerical ranges: "range" <symbol> <symbol> ["if" <expr>]
This allows to limit the range of possible input values for int This allows to limit the range of possible input values for int
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