Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933487AbXBEVlZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:41:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933480AbXBEVlZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:41:25 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:37167 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933478AbXBEVlY (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:41:24 -0500 Subject: Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error From: David Woodhouse To: Alan Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20070205215007.0820edea@localhost.localdomain> 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> <20070205163152.GA2464@elte.hu> <1170710272.29759.894.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070205215007.0820edea@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:41:09 +0000 Message-Id: <1170711669.29759.913.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-3.fc6.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 960 Lines: 23 On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 21:50 +0000, Alan wrote: > > No, you're thinking of something else. The use of 'select' just turns > > the problem backwards -- if _every_ SCSI hostadapter were to 'select > > SCSI' instead of depending on it, then I'd have to say 'n' to every damn > > one of them instead of being able to just say 'n' to SCSI as I can at > > the moment. > > Tools issue. You want a "really de-select right now" button That's a useful suggestion actually -- one answer to this bogus proliferation of 'select' is to hack the tools so that they treat occurrences of 'select' referring to a _visible_ option as the dependencies which they _should_ have been, rather than this silly new behaviour. -- dwmw2 - 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/