From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, geert@linux-m68k.org,
Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk, chrisw@sous-sol.org, matthew@wil.cx
Subject: Re: [patch] s390 kconfig cleanup, 2nd version.
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:10:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1151917853.5334.6.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060630104103.0b394b20.akpm@osdl.org>
On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 10:41 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Even better would be to teach the Kconfig sytem about this, so in
> arch/s390/Kconfig we do
>
> disable VT
>
> and the Kconfig system knows not to offer VT, so there's no need to go
> adding `depends on !DISABLE_foo' all over the place. The above DISABLE_foo
> convention just simulates that missing feature.
That would be a very useful feature to have. There are some border cases
where no real positive dependency exist. For that a "disable xxx" would
be perfect. But we still should use positive dependencies where possible
to keep the disable lists short.
--
blue skies,
Martin.
Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH
"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-03 9:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-30 12:26 [patch] s390 kconfig cleanup, 2nd version Martin Schwidefsky
2006-06-30 12:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-06-30 12:54 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-06-30 12:44 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-30 13:04 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-06-30 13:09 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-30 13:20 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-06-30 13:28 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-06-30 14:05 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-30 14:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-06-30 14:20 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-03 23:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-07-03 23:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-07-04 12:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-07-04 13:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-07-04 15:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-07-04 18:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-07-01 2:38 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-06-30 14:13 ` Kyle McMartin
2006-06-30 14:20 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-30 17:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-30 18:28 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-03 9:10 ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]
2006-07-03 9:20 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-03 10:35 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-07 16:19 ` [Kconfig] add disable command (was Re: [patch] s390 kconfig cleanup, 2nd version) Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-07 19:27 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-07 16:19 ` [Kconfig] use " Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-07 19:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-07-08 23:42 ` Ralf Baechle
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