Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751850AbXBEREZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:04:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751860AbXBEREZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:04:25 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([217.147.92.249]:3521 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751850AbXBEREX (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:04:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:04:08 +0000 From: Russell King To: Ingo Molnar Cc: David Woodhouse , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error Message-ID: <20070205170408.GE4563@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Ingo Molnar , David Woodhouse , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20070205084523.GA21858@elte.hu> <1170682488.29759.795.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070205155627.GA8354@elte.hu> <1170692539.29759.856.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070205162635.GA755@elte.hu> <20070205164603.GC4563@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20070205165233.GA4781@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070205165233.GA4781@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1243 Lines: 33 On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:52:33PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Russell King 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. I agree 100% with that - since when that happens it's possible to traverse the tree to tell the user what's going on. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - 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/