Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:52:33 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error
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* Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> and the rest (ie, except integrator, versatile and ixp4xx) has:
> 
> config ARCH_SHARK
>         bool "Shark"
>         select PCI
> 
> IOW, the "PCI support" question isn't offered for platforms which 
> require PCI to be present, but is offered on platforms where it's 
> optional.

yeah. I think this also fits into the special-case i mentioned: it isnt 
connected to something user-selectable, it's a side-effect of the first 
'feature selection' the user does: 'what platform do you compile your 
kernel on'. As such it is a convenience group-selection.

i.e. what we have behind this is still a clean tree of dependencies.

The mess begins i think when options with real code behind them start to 
grow back and forth dependencies in form of criss-crossing 'depends on' 
and 'select' instances.

	Ingo
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