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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/16] GFS2: Makefiles and Kconfig
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:56:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060421205639.GA26949@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060421170753.GW24104@parisc-linux.org>

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:07:53AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 06:53:51PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 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:
> > > > - "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.
> 
> What rubbish!  Who came up with this rule of thumb?
Currently menuconfig makes it a very difficult job to undo a select.
Homework: try to do "make allmodconfig" and then set CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n

You will be hit by CONFIG_FW_LOADER that is 'selected' by many
instances - and then it becomes very difficult.
So until menuconfig has better support for undoing select the rule of
thumb outlined by Adrian is true.

	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-21 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-21 16:22 [PATCH 13/16] GFS2: Makefiles and Kconfig Steven Whitehouse
2006-04-21 16:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-21 16:49   ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-04-21 16:53     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-21 17:07       ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-04-21 20:56         ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2006-04-21 23:00   ` Greg KH
2006-04-24 13:24     ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-04-24 13:32   ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-04-21 21:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-04-24 13:27   ` Steven Whitehouse

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