[PATCH 4/4] Conditionally force on namespaces

Serge E. Hallyn serue at us.ibm.com
Fri Jun 5 12:35:38 PDT 2009


Quoting Dave Hansen (dave at linux.vnet.ibm.com):
> 
> This should work around the compile issues that Nathan
> pointed out yesterday.  It's too bad that 'select' is
> such a blunt object.  We could surely use a soft select
> or something.  But this hacks around it a bit.
> 
> Create a separate "*_NS_DEP" Kconfig option for the
> dependencies for each namespace.  Make the real config
> option and the c/r 'select' bot dependent on the new
> common one.
> 
> This should at least keep compile errors from being
> introduced.  Whether this is rude or not is a separate
> questions. :)

Yeah I'm not sure I'm a fan of this...

While I hate chasing down missing dependencies, maybe
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT should just depend on all the namespaces
instead of selecting them?

I'd assumed that was Nathan was really asking for, though
I could be wrong.

-serge


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