Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932336AbWBIQHr (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:07:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932554AbWBIQHr (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:07:47 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:6620 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932336AbWBIQHq (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:07:46 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:06:34 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Adrian Bunk cc: Ulrich Mueller , Bernd Petrovitsch , Herbert Poetzl , Arjan van de Ven , Mark Lord , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , Linus Torvalds , Byron Stanoszek , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: RFC: add an ADVANCED_USER option In-Reply-To: <20060207144236.GH5937@stusta.de> Message-ID: 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> <17384.43328.181493.272871@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20060207144236.GH5937@stusta.de> 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: 960 Lines: 30 >> > 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? > >No, if there's a dependency between the two, then in this direction. ACK. Advanced code is not necessarily "incomplete code/drivers". >> 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. > >What about no dependency between ADVANCED_USER and EXPERIMENTAL? > Sounds good. Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/