Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964992AbWH2ORK (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:17:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964990AbWH2ORK (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:17:10 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:56995 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964986AbWH2ORH (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:17:07 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <44F44B8D.4010700@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:13:33 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060720 SeaMonkey/1.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Christoph Hellwig , David Howells , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/17] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #2] References: <20060829115138.GA32714@infradead.org> <20060825142753.GK10659@infradead.org> <20060824213252.21323.18226.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20060824213334.21323.76323.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <10117.1156522985@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <15945.1156854198@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20060829122501.GA7814@infradead.org> <44F44639.90103@s5r6.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <44F44639.90103@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1198 Lines: 26 I wrote: > If SCSI is set to "N", then any menu items which depend on SCSI are not > visible anymore. [...] > If "select" cannot be fixed or is not en vogue for any other reason, the > configuration tools need to be improved otherwise, so that users are > guided to options like USB_STORAGE and IEEE1394_SBP2 when SCSI or other > "foreign" options were disabled. An easy but crude fix would be to add an according hint at the help text of the immediately superordinate config option. E.g. at IEEE1394: "Also enable SCSI support to be able to switch on SBP-2 support (IEEE 1394 protocol e.g. for storage devices)." But this is extremely ugly /1./ because it would litter help texts of generic options with redundant information about specific options and /2./ because it requires users to find and read help texts in order to convince the configurator to make options visible. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- =--- ===-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/