Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:59:54 +0100
From: Andrea Barisani <lcars@infis.univ.trieste.it>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.0, wrong Kconfig directives
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:17:32PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 12:56:23AM +0100, Andrea Barisani wrote:
> > 
> > Hi folks,
> 
> Hi Andrea,

Hi!

> 
> > Installing 2.6.0 I've found that some kernel options directives are wrong,
> > in fact the option turns out to be always enabled. I don't think this is 
> > a desired behaviour.
> > 
> > Sorry for the format, yes I know it's ugly :) but I'll leave to you the proper 
> > solution :) so I can't make a proper patch.
> > 
> > 
> > - IPV6_SCTP___ option is always turned on
> > 
> > ./net/sctp/Kconfig:
> > 
> > 8:  config IPV6_SCTP__
> > 9: 	    tristate
> > 10:         default y if IPV6=n
> > 11:	    default IPV6 if IPV6
> > 12:
> > 13: config IP_SCTP
> > 14:	    tristate "The SCTP Protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> > 15:	    depends on IPV6_SCTP__
> > 
> > 
> > I think something is wrong here, why the 'default y if IPV6=n' ???
> 
> 
> It's ___ugly___ but designed this way...
> 
> The whole purpose of IPV6_SCTP__ is to disallow static IP_SCTP with
> modular IPV6.

Ok, so it's actually a "dummy" config with not linked with real code. A
simple grep suggest that. If so I won't complain again, now it's clear ;)

However it's really ___ugly___ ;)

> 
> These EMBEDDED are there to help people not to accidentially disable 
> these options although they might require them.

Ok that's fine, however I personally think this should be documented in
EMBEDDED related options to let people know how they can disable them.

And I really think that MOUSEDEV should not be considered a 'not-standard'
option. It's quite common disabling MOUSE support on servers, terminals and
so on. :)

> cu
> Adrian

Bye and thanks

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