Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933460AbXBEVx2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:53:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933500AbXBEVx2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:53:28 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:46503 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933460AbXBEVx1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:53:27 -0500 Subject: Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error From: David Woodhouse To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: 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> <1170711587.29759.909.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:53:13 +0000 Message-Id: <1170712393.29759.925.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: 1058 Lines: 33 On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 13:49 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Can you read? Can you UNDERSTAND? > > This is exactly my point. > > If it's not obviously a SCSI card, then it shouldn't be "depends on SCSI". > It should be on its own and "select SCSI". > > The whole AND ALMOST ONLY point of "depends on" is really to allow people > to do a shorthand or know that "ok, he gave us some information that makes > this choice pointless". You're asking _me_ if I can read? Ten years ago, people used 'depends on' to fix the tools, so that then you want to enable something like USB_STORAGE, it can automatically turn SCSI on for you. Isn't that what you wanted? You don't need to screw over the technical users -- the _common_ case -- in order to achieve that. We had it. TEN YEARS AGO. In the tools. -- 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/