Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965102AbWBGOfx (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:35:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965105AbWBGOfx (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:35:53 -0500 Received: from host2092.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.92]:46499 "EHLO a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965102AbWBGOfw (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:35:52 -0500 From: Ulrich Mueller MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17384.43328.181493.272871@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:05:52 +0100 To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch , Herbert Poetzl , Jan Engelhardt , Arjan van de Ven , Mark Lord , Ulrich Mueller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , Linus Torvalds , Byron Stanoszek , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: RFC: add an ADVANCED_USER option References: <43E3DB99.9020604@rtr.ca> <1139153913.3131.42.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1139174355.3131.50.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060207004147.GA21620@MAIL.13thfloor.at> <1139305085.13091.17.camel@tara.firmix.at> <20060207121955.GD5937@stusta.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 864 Lines: 23 >>>>> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > What we could do is to add an additional ADVANCED_USER option that > hides options like VMSPLIT or the NAPI options for net drivers. > config ADVANCED_USER > bool "ask questions that require a deeper knowledge of the kernel" > config EXPERIMENTAL > bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" > depends on ADVANCED_USER Shouldn't this be the other way around, i.e. ADVANCED_USER depending on EXPERIMENTAL? If you implement it as above, people will set ADVANCED_USER to "n" in oldconfig and then be surprised that all experimental drivers are gone. - 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/