From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roman Zippel Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "select" Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 22:57:57 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <463F27CE.2040008@garzik.org> <463F8CB4.3040603@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Satyam Sharma , Krzysztof Halasa , Russell King , lkml , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk To: Jeff Garzik Return-path: Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:3659 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966607AbXEGU6J (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 16:58:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <463F8CB4.3040603@garzik.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi, On Mon, 7 May 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Tough, the kernel community has voted against you. > > It makes far more sense to include a driver during kernel configuration, and > have that driver pull in its libraries via 'select'. The lame alternative > requires developers to know which libraries they need BEFORE picking their > drivers, which is backwards and requires legwork on the part of the kernel > developer. Jeff, there was never anything to "vote" about! There is no autoconfiguration, kernel configuration isn't ready for Aunt Tilly and select is no substitute for it... bye, Roman