Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161379AbWALWqf (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:46:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161383AbWALWqf (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:46:35 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:61620 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161379AbWALWqd (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:46:33 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:46:02 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrew Morton cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Roman Zippel Subject: Re: [git patches] 2.6.x net driver updates In-Reply-To: <20060112143938.5cf7d6a5.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20060112221322.GA25470@havoc.gtf.org> <20060112143938.5cf7d6a5.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 723 Lines: 20 On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Yes, I think that's much more Aunt-Nellie-friendly, but Roman considers it > abuse of the Kconfig system in ways which I never completely understood? Hmm. If Roman dislikes it, he must dislike the fact that we already do exactly this for a ton of different things. There's something like 2000+ "select" statements in the kernel Kconfig tree, and just grepping for "select.*CRYPTO" gets 52 hits.. So this isn't new.. Linus - 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/