From: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 23:16:33 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: kbuild: document recursive dependency limitation / resolution
X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=carl9170fw.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=b3d9e508a8fbb972064bdb7409f0f0f19a67d37a

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>
---

diff --git a/config/symbol.c b/config/symbol.c
index 50878dc..25cf0c2 100644
--- a/config/symbol.c
+++ b/config/symbol.c
@@ -1116,6 +1116,8 @@ static void sym_check_print_recursive(struct symbol *last_sym)
 		if (stack->sym == last_sym)
 			fprintf(stderr, "%s:%d:error: recursive dependency detected!\n",
 				prop->file->name, prop->lineno);
+			fprintf(stderr, "For a resolution refer to Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt\n");
+			fprintf(stderr, "subsection \"Kconfig recursive dependency limitations\"\n");
 		if (stack->expr) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "%s:%d:\tsymbol %s %s value contains %s\n",
 				prop->file->name, prop->lineno,