Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:23:16 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, jgarzik@pobox.com,
       netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [git patches] 2.6.x net driver updates
Message-ID: <20060113192316.GX3945@suse.de>
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On Thu, Jan 12 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >  > 
> >  > dann frazier:
> >  >       CONFIG_AIRO needs CONFIG_CRYPTO
> > 
> >  I think this is done wrong.
> > 
> >  It should "select CRYPTO" rather than "depends on CRYPTO".
> > 
> >  Otherwise people won't see it just because they don't have crypto enabled, 
> >  which is not very user-friendly.
> > 
> 
> 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?

'select' is really cool as a concept, but when you can't figure out why
you cannot disable CONFIG_FOO because CONFIG_BAR selects it it's really
annoying. Would be nice to actually be able to see if another option has
selected this option.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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