From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mtagate3.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.152]:41446 "EHLO mtagate3.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751096AbWGCKfZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:35:25 -0400 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate3.de.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k63AZMQk099948 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 10:35:24 GMT Received: from d12av01.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av01.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.212]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.6/NCO/VER7.0) with ESMTP id k63Ac1Vh119984 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:38:02 +0200 Received: from d12av01.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av01.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k63AZJ9q027511 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:35:20 +0200 Subject: Re: [patch] s390 kconfig cleanup, 2nd version. From: Martin Schwidefsky Reply-To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <20060703022026.495cdb2c.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1151670404.11575.5.camel@localhost> <20060630104103.0b394b20.akpm@osdl.org> <1151917853.5334.6.camel@localhost> <20060703022026.495cdb2c.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:35:10 +0200 Message-Id: <1151922910.5334.10.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton 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 List-ID: On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 02:20 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > 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. > > > > I don't understand that. > > depends on !DISABLE_FOO > > is short? I was after the options that can be dealt with an existing positive dependency, e.g. "depends on PCI", or "depends on ISA". I have a handful of these in my patch. -- blue skies, Martin. Martin Schwidefsky Linux for zSeries Development & Services IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.