From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263618AbTLUSHU (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2003 13:07:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263620AbTLUSHU (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2003 13:07:20 -0500 Received: from linux-bt.org ([217.160.111.169]:27050 "EHLO mail.holtmann.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263618AbTLUSHT (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2003 13:07:19 -0500 Subject: Re: Difference between select and enable in Kconfig From: Marcel Holtmann To: Roman Zippel Cc: Randy Dunlap , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <1071974814.2684.41.camel@pegasus> <20031220205433.195037e8.rddunlap@osdl.org> <1072027326.2684.72.camel@pegasus> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1072029989.2684.76.camel@pegasus> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 19:06:30 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Roman, > > so both options achieve the same result. Why do we have two different > > options for the same stuff? Should we not remove one? > > It was called first 'enable' and later renamed into 'select', which is now > the official version, so 'enable' could be indeed removed. thanks for the clarification and I have choosen the wrong one. After a quick grep through the kernel sources I found that drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig is the only file that uses the enable option and of course this was the example I have looked at :( Regards Marcel