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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "select"
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 13:56:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r6psc0ee.fsf@maximus.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705071318150.1479@scrub.home> (Roman Zippel's message of "Mon, 7 May 2007 13:22:40 +0200 (CEST)")

Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> writes:

>> You don't have to know it's required, you can just select a driver
>> for your hardware, without enabling HDLC first.
>
> Is this a real problem?

I think the "select" is better.

> Using select you should also consider removing HDLC as visible option and 
> use only select. Mixing depends and selects is generally a bad idea.

It has to stay there for external modules.

It's similar to MII - drivers select MII automatically but you can
turn it on (Y or M) by hand as well.

And you can have HDLC=y and driver=m (and it makes perfect sense).

Actually I can't see any bad idea here.
The original dependency was certainly, uhm, not the best one.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-07 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-06 23:46 [PATCH 0/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-07  0:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "select" Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-07  1:44   ` Roman Zippel
2007-05-07  9:35     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-07 11:22       ` Roman Zippel
2007-05-07 11:56         ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2007-05-07 13:17           ` Roman Zippel
2007-05-07 13:21             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-07 13:46               ` Roman Zippel
2007-05-07 16:50                 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-07 17:07                   ` Roman Zippel
2007-05-07 18:15                     ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-07 20:31                       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-07 20:49                         ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-07 20:50                         ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-07 22:39                           ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-07 22:52                             ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-07 20:57                         ` Roman Zippel
2007-05-07 20:54                     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-07 21:02                     ` [PATCH] Use menuconfig objects II - netdev/wan Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-07 21:08                     ` [PATCH 1a/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "select" Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-07  0:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] ARM: include IXP4xx "fuses" support Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-07  5:24   ` Alexey Zaytsev
2007-05-07 10:24     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-07  0:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-07 12:59   ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-07 17:12     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-07 17:52       ` Christian Hohnstaedt
2007-05-07 20:00         ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-08 11:48           ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-05-08 13:47             ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-07 18:14       ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-07 19:57         ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-07 20:18           ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-08 11:46             ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-05-08  0:11           ` [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-08  0:36           ` [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - NPE Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-08  7:02             ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-08 13:56               ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-08  0:46           ` [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-08  7:05             ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-08 13:57               ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-08 11:32             ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-05-08 12:47               ` Alexey Zaytsev
2007-05-08 12:59                 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-05-08 14:12               ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-08 14:40                 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-05-08 16:59                   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-09 10:21                     ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-05-10 14:08                       ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-08  1:19           ` [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-08  5:28             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-08  7:22             ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-08 11:37             ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-05-08 14:31               ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-08 14:53                 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-05-08 17:17                   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-08 11:40   ` [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers Lennert Buytenhek
2007-05-07 10:27 ` [PATCH 2a/3] " Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-08  1:40 ` [PATCH 0/3] " Krzysztof Halasa

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