Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752428AbaDOEuh (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2014 00:50:37 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:55457 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752115AbaDOEue (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2014 00:50:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:53:34 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Josh Boyer Cc: Jean Delvare , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Michal Marek Subject: Re: Hardware dependencies in Kconfig Message-ID: <20140415045334.GB32541@kroah.com> References: <20140414145359.48b7337c@endymion.delvare> <20140414191143.GA26864@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 03:59:11PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > Maybe I'm overly grumpy. Still, it's frustrating to see Kconfig > entries that clearly say "blahblah found on foo ARM chip" in the help > with no "depends on ARM" (not meaning to pick on ARM). I would like > to think there is some balance that could be found here. Yes, that would make me grumpy, perhaps a few developers could be auditing the new Kconfig items of every kernel around -rc3 timeframe to ensure that they don't do stuff like this... thanks, greg k-h -- 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/