linux/scripts/kconfig/tests
Masahiro Yamada 6a1215888e kconfig: remove 'optional' property support
The 'choice' statement is primarily used to exclusively select one
option, but the 'optional' property allows all entries to be disabled.

In the following example, both A and B can be disabled simultaneously:

    choice
            prompt "choose A, B, or nothing"
            optional

    config A
            bool "A"

    config B
            bool "B"

    endchoice

You can achieve the equivalent outcome by other means.

A common solution is to add another option to guard the choice block.
In the following example, you can set ENABLE_A_B_CHOICE=n to disable
the entire choice block:

    choice
            prompt "choose A or B"
            depends on ENABLE_A_B_CHOICE

    config A
            bool "A"

    config B
            bool "B"

    endchoice

Another approach is to insert one more entry:

    choice
            prompt "choose A, B, or disable both"

    config A
            bool "A"

    config B
            bool "B"

    config DISABLE_A_AND_B
            bool "choose this to disable both A and B"

    endchoice

Some real examples are DEBUG_INFO_NONE, INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_NONE,
LTO_NONE, etc.

The 'optional' property is even more unnecessary for a tristate choice.

Without the 'optional' property, you can disable A and B; you can set
'm' in the choice prompt, and disable A and B individually:

    choice
            prompt "choose one built-in or make them modular"

    config A
            tristate "A"

    config B
            tristate "B"

    endchoice

In conclusion, the 'optional' property was unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
2024-05-02 19:48:26 +09:00
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auto_submenu kconfig: convert to SPDX License Identifier 2018-12-28 22:22:28 +09:00
choice kconfig: remove 'optional' property support 2024-05-02 19:48:26 +09:00
choice_randomize kconfig: tests: add a test for randconfig with dependent choices 2024-03-21 02:39:55 +09:00
choice_randomize2 kconfig: tests: test dependency after shuffling choices 2024-03-21 02:40:39 +09:00
choice_value_with_m_dep kconfig: change "modules" from sub-option to first-level attribute 2021-04-14 15:22:49 +09:00
err_recursive_dep kconfig: print recursive dependency errors in the parsed order 2024-02-20 20:47:45 +09:00
err_recursive_inc kconfig: tests: fix recursive inclusion unit test 2019-06-05 02:33:10 +09:00
inter_choice kconfig: change "modules" from sub-option to first-level attribute 2021-04-14 15:22:49 +09:00
new_choice_with_dep kconfig: convert to SPDX License Identifier 2018-12-28 22:22:28 +09:00
no_write_if_dep_unmet kconfig: convert to SPDX License Identifier 2018-12-28 22:22:28 +09:00
preprocess kconfig: test: add Kconfig macro language tests 2018-05-29 03:31:19 +09:00
conftest.py kconfig: tests: support KCONFIG_SEED for the randconfig runner 2024-03-21 02:39:40 +09:00
pytest.ini