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Masahiro Yamada 45c7f555bf kconfig: doc: document behavior of 'select' and 'imply' followed by 'if'

Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst explains the behavior of
'select' as follows:

  reverse dependencies can be used to force a lower limit of
  another symbol. The value of the current menu symbol is used as the
  minimal value <symbol> can be set to.

This is not true when the 'select' property is followed by 'if'.

[Test Code]

    config MODULES
            def_bool y
            modules

    config A
            def_tristate y
            select C if B

    config B
            def_tristate m

    config C
            tristate

[Result]

    CONFIG_MODULES=y
    CONFIG_A=y
    CONFIG_B=m
    CONFIG_C=m

If "the value of A is used as the minimal value C can be set to",
C must be 'y'.

The actual behavior is "C is selected by (A && B)". The lower limit of
C is downgraded due to B being 'm'.

This behavior is kind of weird, and this has arisen several times in
the mailing list.

I do not know whether it is a bug or intended behavior. Anyway, it is
not feasible to change it now because many Kconfig files are written
based on this behavior. The same applies to 'imply'.

Document this (but reserve the possibility for a future change).

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

2024-06-06 20:05:15 +09:00

gcc-plugins.rst

docs/core-api: expand Fedora instructions for GCC plugins

2022-09-27 13:21:44 -06:00

headers_install.rst

Kbuild updates for v5.3

2019-07-12 16:03:16 -07:00

index.rst

Kbuild updates for v5.7

2020-03-31 16:03:39 -07:00

issues.rst

docs: kbuild: fix build with pdf and fix some minor issues