From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] USB Kconfig: Select SCSI for USB Mass Storage support
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:08:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4780E0F7.100@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801060652390.16883@asgard.lang.hm>
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.)
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-06 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-05 15:41 [PATCH 2/5] USB Kconfig: Select SCSI for USB Mass Storage support Al Boldi
2008-01-05 18:42 ` David Brownell
2008-01-05 19:30 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-01-05 21:03 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-05 21:09 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-05 23:22 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-01-05 23:45 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 0:35 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 0:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 11:29 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 11:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 12:32 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 12:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 13:23 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 12:18 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 12:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 13:13 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 13:38 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 13:55 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-06 13:57 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 14:45 ` david
2008-01-06 13:41 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 15:05 ` david
2008-01-06 14:08 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2008-01-06 17:11 ` Alan Stern
2008-01-06 18:07 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 1:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-01-06 11:54 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 12:05 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 12:41 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 5:03 ` Al Boldi
2008-01-06 14:39 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 17:07 ` Al Boldi
2008-01-06 17:50 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 18:01 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 18:23 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-05 20:40 ` Stefan Richter
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