From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [git patches] 2.6.x net driver updates
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:23:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060113192316.GX3945@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060112143938.5cf7d6a5.akpm@osdl.org>
On Thu, Jan 12 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > >
> > > dann frazier:
> > > CONFIG_AIRO needs CONFIG_CRYPTO
> >
> > I think this is done wrong.
> >
> > It should "select CRYPTO" rather than "depends on CRYPTO".
> >
> > Otherwise people won't see it just because they don't have crypto enabled,
> > which is not very user-friendly.
> >
>
> Yes, I think that's much more Aunt-Nellie-friendly, but Roman considers it
> abuse of the Kconfig system in ways which I never completely understood?
'select' is really cool as a concept, but when you can't figure out why
you cannot disable CONFIG_FOO because CONFIG_BAR selects it it's really
annoying. Would be nice to actually be able to see if another option has
selected this option.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-13 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-12 22:13 [git patches] 2.6.x net driver updates Jeff Garzik
2006-01-12 22:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-12 22:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-12 22:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-13 17:56 ` Roman Zippel
2006-01-13 19:23 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-01-13 19:28 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-01-13 19:36 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-14 2:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-14 5:05 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-12 22:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-12 23:14 ` Adrian Bunk
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-09 17:10 Jeff Garzik
2006-01-03 16:41 Jeff Garzik
2005-11-09 6:53 Jeff Garzik
2005-11-05 19:58 Jeff Garzik
2005-10-29 18:21 Jeff Garzik
2005-10-28 0:42 Jeff Garzik
[not found] <42B456E2.8000500@pobox.com>
2005-06-18 17:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-18 18:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-18 18:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-18 18:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-18 18:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-18 20:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-18 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] <4292BA66.8070806@pobox.com>
2005-05-24 6:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-24 6:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-24 6:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-24 7:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-24 7:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-24 7:55 ` David Lang
2005-05-24 6:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-24 6:50 ` Linus Torvalds
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