Re: [PATCH 13/16] GFS2: Makefiles and Kconfig

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 10:49:10AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 06:43:09PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/fs/gfs2/Kconfig
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
> > > +config GFS2_FS
> > > +        tristate "GFS2 file system support"
> > > +	default m
> > > +	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> > > +        select FS_POSIX_ACL
> > > +        select SYSFS
> > >...
> > 
> > - "depends on SYSFS" instead of the select
> 
> Why?  It's more natural to select it rather than depend on it.

The rule of thumb is that an option is either user visible and should be 
depended on or not user visible and should be select'ed.

Exceptions are possible, but there should be a good reason for them.

It doesn't matter much in this case unless you are really expecting 
people to use EMBEDDED=y (IOW: _very_ space limited system) and 
GFS2_FS=y/m.

cu
Adrian

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