Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754988Ab3GPKFY (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jul 2013 06:05:24 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f54.google.com ([209.85.160.54]:57177 "EHLO mail-pb0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753658Ab3GPKFW (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jul 2013 06:05:22 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130716095938.GA4962@pd.tnic> References: <1367829775-4434-1-git-send-email-kyungsik.lee@lge.com> <201307161132.39845.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <20130716093820.GE4402@pd.tnic> <201307161145.27810.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <20130716095938.GA4962@pd.tnic> From: Florian Fainelli Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:04:41 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: x9ykn2S6vkir87mCZRPKjXOoelw Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH -next 2/2] kbuild: fix for updated LZ4 tool with the new streaming format To: Borislav Petkov Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" , Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Kyungsik Lee , Michal Marek , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org, "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , hyojun.im@lge.com, chan.jeong@lge.com, Andy Lee , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Russell King , Yann Collet , Chanho Min Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 965 Lines: 24 2013/7/16 Borislav Petkov : > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:45:27AM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: >> As discussed with Florian in this thread, either one of: >> - a warning at check time >> - a comment in Kconfig > > Whatever you do, make sure to make it quite clear to users what she > needs to do. > > What I really have a problem with is options being hidden just because I > haven't selected something they depend on and having to run around the > Kconfig maze to find what I also need to select in order for the option > to appear. Yes, me too, which is why I suggested the warning, as in "a warning printed to stdout/stderr" rather than a Kconfig comment which will be easy to be ignored. -- Florian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/