Re: [PATCH 2/5] USB Kconfig: Select SCSI for USB Mass Storage support

Stefan Richter
2008-01-06T14:10:46Z

david@lang.hm wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> build-time configuration has to deal with different, more
>> complex questions than run-time configuration.
...
> what config options must be selected by the user at build time? (i.e. no
> sane default can possibly be deduced from the hardware)
>
> there are a lot of options that, if selected, will affect the final
> result significantly. but I can't think of any that can't have a
> reasonable default.
...

I agree that sets of defaults, e.g. based on usage profiles, help a lot.

Alas the 'select' keyword enforces one particular profile. (And it is
currently broken and generally dangerous and inefficient for
dependencies deeper than one level.)
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Stefan Richter
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