From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750884AbWJRHIo (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:08:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750953AbWJRHIo (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:08:44 -0400 Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([62.242.22.158]:35903 "EHLO kernel.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750884AbWJRHIo (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:08:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:09:22 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: fs/Kconfig question regarding CONFIG_BLOCK Message-ID: <20061018070922.GB24452@kernel.dk> References: <200610171857.k9HIvq1M009488@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20061017193645.GM7854@kernel.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 17 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> Never mind, I see that some filesystems have 'depends on BLOCK' instead > >> of being wrapped into if BLOCK. Not really consistent but whatever. > > > >Feel free to send in patches that make things more consistent. > > How would you like things? if BLOCK or depends on BLOCK? Well, if you can hide an entire block with if BLOCK, then that would be preferred. Otherwise depends on BLOCK. > Does menuconfig/oldconfig/etc. parse the whole config structure faster > it it done either way? I'd be surprised if if BLOCK wasn't faster over, say, 10 depends on BLOCK. -- Jens Axboe