Re: [PATCH] drm/usb: select USB_SUPPORT in Kconfig

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:12:22PM +0530, Sachin Kamat wrote:

In general what you suggested seems to be the right thing to do. However in this particular case, making this "depends on" creates recursive dependencies and probably that is the reason Dave Airlie decided to make it "select USB" (?)

Probably, yes. Trying to fix this resulted in a race through Kconfig entries throughout the kernel. Given that your patch is probably ok, though this should really be fixed properly.

Sascha