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Surprisingly or not, disabling a CONFIG option (which is assumed to be unneeded) may be not so trivial. Especially it is not trivial, when this CONFIG option is selected by a dozen of other configs. Before the moment commit1ccb271433("kconfig: make "Selected by:" and "Implied by:" readable") popped up in v4.16-rc1, it was an absolute pain to break down the "Selected by" reverse dependency expression in order to identify all those configs which select (IOW *do not allow disabling*) a certain feature (assumed to be not needed). This patch tries to make one step further by putting at users' fingertips the revdep top level OR sub-expressions grouped/clustered by the tristate value they evaluate to. This should allow the users to directly concentrate on and tackle the _active_ reverse dependencies. To give some numbers and quantify the complexity of certain reverse dependencies, assuming commit617aebe6a9("Merge tag 'usercopy-v4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux"), ARCH=arm64 and vanilla arm64 defconfig, here is the top 10 CONFIG options with the highest amount of top level "||" sub-expressions/tokens that make up the final "Selected by" reverse dependency expression. | Config | All revdep | Active revdep | |-------------------|------------|---------------| | REGMAP_I2C | 212 | 9 | | CRC32 | 167 | 25 | | FW_LOADER | 128 | 5 | | MFD_CORE | 124 | 9 | | FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT | 114 | 2 | | FB_CFB_COPYAREA | 111 | 2 | | FB_CFB_FILLRECT | 110 | 2 | | SND_PCM | 103 | 2 | | CRYPTO_HASH | 87 | 19 | | WATCHDOG_CORE | 86 | 6 | The story behind the above is that users need to visually review/evaluate 212 expressions which *potentially* select REGMAP_I2C in order to identify the expressions which *actually* select REGMAP_I2C, for a particular ARCH and for a particular defconfig used. To make this experience smoother, change the way reverse dependencies are displayed to the user from [1] to [2]. [1] Old representation of DMA_ENGINE_RAID: Selected by: - AMCC_PPC440SPE_ADMA [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && (440SPe || 440SP) - BCM_SBA_RAID [=m] && DMADEVICES [=y] && (ARM64 [=y] || ... - FSL_RAID [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && FSL_SOC && ... - INTEL_IOATDMA [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && PCI [=y] && X86_64 - MV_XOR [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && (PLAT_ORION || ARCH_MVEBU [=y] ... - MV_XOR_V2 [=y] && DMADEVICES [=y] && ARM64 [=y] - XGENE_DMA [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && (ARCH_XGENE [=y] || ... - DMATEST [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && DMA_ENGINE [=y] [2] New representation of DMA_ENGINE_RAID: Selected by [y]: - MV_XOR_V2 [=y] && DMADEVICES [=y] && ARM64 [=y] Selected by [m]: - BCM_SBA_RAID [=m] && DMADEVICES [=y] && (ARM64 [=y] || ... Selected by [n]: - AMCC_PPC440SPE_ADMA [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && (440SPe || ... - FSL_RAID [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && FSL_SOC && ... - INTEL_IOATDMA [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && PCI [=y] && X86_64 - MV_XOR [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && (PLAT_ORION || ARCH_MVEBU [=y] ... - XGENE_DMA [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && (ARCH_XGENE [=y] || ... - DMATEST [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && DMA_ENGINE [=y] Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@de.adit-jv.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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