Subject: Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:08:08 +0100
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On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:56 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> btw., this whole select problem is not limited to Aunt Tillie: in a 
> couple of cases in the past few months when i saw some weird code in
> a 
> driver and tried to enable it i had to search around for many minutes 
> and enable random options to figure out its config dependencies until
> i 
> had the driver truly enabled. (if there's some easy solution to this 
> then i'm all ears - but i exclude the easiest solution of adding me
> to 
> the 'aunt' category ;-) I think that by blaming Aunt Tillie you might
> be 
> missing the real problem. 

the real problem is that we plain have way too many config options ;)
While it's nice to make some things conditional, I have the feeling that
things have gone too far in the kernel today....


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