From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [git patches] 2.6.x net driver updates Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:23:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20060113192316.GX3945@suse.de> References: <20060112221322.GA25470@havoc.gtf.org> <20060112143938.5cf7d6a5.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Roman Zippel Return-path: To: Andrew Morton Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060112143938.5cf7d6a5.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 12 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > Linus Torvalds 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