kbuild: document recursive dependency limitation / resolution
authorLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Wed, 7 Oct 2015 23:16:33 +0000 (16:16 -0700)
committerChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:17:14 +0000 (16:17 +0200)
commitb3d9e508a8fbb972064bdb7409f0f0f19a67d37a
tree366e2745ba7f1907634e0a93a6382bdbea54a103
parent6594c831dde8069acf8be354e683bbb87ed6570f
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>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
config/symbol.c