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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kconfiglib.py b/kconfiglib.py
index f92bb24..cc91bf2 100644
--- a/kconfiglib.py
+++ b/kconfiglib.py
@@ -1569,7 +1569,11 @@ might be an error, and you should e-mail kconfiglib@gmail.com.
def _build_dep(self):
"""Populates the dep dictionary, linking a symbol to the symbols that
- immediately depend on it."""
+ immediately depend on it in the sense that changing the value of the
+ symbol might affect the values of those other symbols. This is used for
+ caching/invalidation purposes. The returned set might be larger than
+ necessary as we don't do any complicated analysis of the
+ expressions."""
for sym in self.syms.itervalues():
self.dep[sym] = set()