From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Cc: david.decotigny@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ian.campbell@citrix.com,
eric.dumazet@gmail.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com,
jpirko@redhat.com, joe@perches.com, szymon@janc.net.pl,
rick.jones2@hp.com, AAbdulla@nvidia.com, therbert@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 3/9] kbuild: document RPS/XPS network Kconfig options
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:59:01 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111116.215901.100218898762260021.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321498443.2885.80.camel@deadeye>
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:54:03 +0000
> On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 17:54 -0800, David Decotigny wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Ben Hutchings
>> <bhutchings@solarflare.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 14:15 -0800, David Decotigny wrote:
>> >> This adds a description of RPS/XPS options and allow them to be
>> >> changed at make menuconfig time.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure why you think this is necessary.
>>
>> On my copy, make menuconfig doesn't let me change these CONFIG_ items,
>> unless I add the string after "boolean", which this patch does. I
>> agree, the help I added after is pure cosmetic.
> [...]
>
> I know, but I'm asking why you think it's necessary to make them
> optional.
They shouldn't be, they are internal dependency descriptions and should
be invisible to the user.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-17 2:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-16 22:15 [PATCH net-next v6 0/9] net-sysfs+forcedeth: stats & debug enhancements David Decotigny
2011-11-16 22:15 ` [PATCH net-next v6 1/9] forcedeth: fix stats on hardware without extended stats support David Decotigny
2011-11-16 22:15 ` [PATCH net-next v6 2/9] net-sysfs: fixed minor sparse warning David Decotigny
2011-11-16 22:15 ` [PATCH net-next v6 3/9] kbuild: document RPS/XPS network Kconfig options David Decotigny
2011-11-16 23:12 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-11-17 1:54 ` David Decotigny
2011-11-17 2:54 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-11-17 2:59 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-11-17 3:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-11-16 22:15 ` [PATCH net-next v6 4/9] net: new counter for tx_timeout errors in sysfs David Decotigny
2011-11-16 22:15 ` [PATCH net-next v6 5/9] forcedeth: Add messages to indicate using MSI or MSI-X David Decotigny
2011-11-16 22:15 ` [PATCH net-next v6 6/9] forcedeth: allow to silence "TX timeout" debug messages David Decotigny
2011-11-16 22:15 ` [PATCH net-next v6 7/9] forcedeth: implement ndo_get_stats64() API David Decotigny
2011-11-17 6:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-11-17 17:39 ` David Decotigny
2011-11-17 17:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-11-16 22:15 ` [PATCH net-next v6 8/9] forcedeth: account for dropped RX frames David Decotigny
2011-11-16 22:15 ` [PATCH net-next v6 9/9] forcedeth: stats updated with a deferrable timer David Decotigny
[not found] <cover.1321496595.git.david.decotigny@google.com>
2011-11-17 2:39 ` [PATCH net-next v6 3/9] kbuild: document RPS/XPS network Kconfig options David Decotigny
2011-11-17 2:58 ` David Miller
2011-11-17 3:04 ` David Decotigny
2011-11-17 3:12 ` David Miller
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