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From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>
Organization: Cyclades Corporation
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] fix Kconfig, hotplug_cpu is needed for swsusp
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:18:31 +1000
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Hi.

On Thursday 30 March 2006 10:13, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com> wrote:
> > I think it's better to use selects.
> > I reckon that if the user selects SMP and then selects suspend support,
> > everything else required should be automatic.
>
> Yes.  `select' is end-user-friendly but kernel-developer-hostile.
> Sometimes it's infuriating trying to work out why a symbol keeps on getti=
ng
> turned on.
>
> <checks>
>
> hm, menuconfig's "/" command does show "Selected by:".  That helps.

This might give the Kconfig guys a headache, but maybe a middle road would =
be=20
to make selects turn on options rather than force them on. That is, make it=
=20
so that if SUSPEND depends on SWAP, and selects it, after enabling SUSPEND,=
=20
SWAP is also enabled, but you can still go to SWAP and turn it off, thereby=
=20
also disabling SUSPEND again?

Regards,

Nigel

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