docs: note about select in kconfig-language.txt

A warning note from Sam Ravnborg about kconfig's select evilness,
dependencies and the future (slightly corrected).

Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Jarek Poplawski and committed by
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Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
··· 98 98 times, the limit is set to the largest selection. 99 99 Reverse dependencies can only be used with boolean or tristate 100 100 symbols. 101 + Note: 102 + select is evil.... select will by brute force set a symbol 103 + equal to 'y' without visiting the dependencies. So abusing 104 + select you are able to select a symbol FOO even if FOO depends 105 + on BAR that is not set. In general use select only for 106 + non-visible symbols (no promts anywhere) and for symbols with 107 + no dependencies. That will limit the usefulness but on the 108 + other hand avoid the illegal configurations all over. kconfig 109 + should one day warn about such things. 101 110 102 111 - numerical ranges: "range" <symbol> <symbol> ["if" <expr>] 103 112 This allows to limit the range of possible input values for int