Re: [2.6 patch] let W1 select NET

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 02:11:28PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Roman,

> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > But the similar case of USB_STORAGE selecting SCSI is an example where 
> > select is a big user-visible improvement over depends.
> 
> comment "USB storage requires SCSI"
> 	depends on SCSI=n
> 
> That's also user visible and doesn't confuse the user later, why he can't 
> deselect SCSI.

that's exactly what we have in 2.4, and it's definitely worse that the 
select.

> Abusing select is really the wrong answer. What is needed is an improved 
> user interface, which allows to search through the kconfig information or 
> even can match hardware information to a driver and aids the user in 
> selecting the required dependencies.
> Keeping the kconfig database clean and making kernel configuration easier 
> are really two separate problems and we shouldn't sacrifice the former for 
> the latter.

Currently there's no better choice then "abusing select".

As soon as your improved user interface is included, I'm willing to help 
to evaluate which select's should be turned back into dependencies.

> bye, Roman

cu
Adrian

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