i'm fairly sure i know the answer to this, but i figured i'd run it by others just to make sure i'm not missing anything subtle. in drivers/video/omap2/Makefile, we see: ... snip ... obj-$(CONFIG_OMAP2_DSS) += dss/ obj-$(CONFIG_FB_OMAP2) += omapfb/ obj-y += displays/ ... snip ... and when i see "obj-y", i like to assume that's a component that will be compiled unconditionally. but if you look at the Kconfig file in the displays/ directory, you see: menu "OMAP2/3 Display Device Drivers" depends on OMAP2_DSS ... entire file contents ... endmenu but that suggests that that entire subdirectory depends on OMAP2_DSS, so one could remove the dependency from that Kconfig file and just move it up to the Makefile above: obj-$(CONFIG_OMAP2_DSS) += displays/ correct? i prefer that approach since the dependency is obvious from the Makefile, without having to descend into the directory itself to learn of it. thoughts? is there anything i'm not noticing about this? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================