[Devel] Re: [PATCH 4/4] Conditionally force on namespaces

Oren Laadan orenl at cs.columbia.edu
Sun Jun 7 23:21:29 PDT 2009



Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 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?
> 

Current c/r can work without namespaces - it should not
depend on CONFIG_NAMESPACE (though it can suggest).

Oren.

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