From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roman Zippel Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #2] Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:12:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <20060829115138.GA32714@infradead.org> <20060825142753.GK10659@infradead.org> <20060824213252.21323.18226.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20060824213334.21323.76323.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <10117.1156522985@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <15945.1156854198@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20060829122501.GA7814@infradead.org> <44F44639.90103@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <44F44B8D.4010700@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , David Howells , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:49625 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932269AbWH3BNA (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:13:00 -0400 To: Stefan Richter In-Reply-To: <44F44B8D.4010700@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Hi, On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Stefan Richter wrote: > An easy but crude fix would be to add an according hint at the help text of > the immediately superordinate config option. E.g. at IEEE1394: "Also enable > SCSI support to be able to switch on SBP-2 support (IEEE 1394 protocol e.g. > for storage devices)." But this is extremely ugly /1./ because it would litter > help texts of generic options with redundant information about specific > options and /2./ because it requires users to find and read help texts in > order to convince the configurator to make options visible. You can also add a simple comment which is only visible if !SCSI. bye, Roman