Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751678AbXBFOg4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:36:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752127AbXBFOg4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:36:56 -0500 Received: from lazybastard.de ([212.112.238.170]:43907 "EHLO longford.lazybastard.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751678AbXBFOgz (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:36:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:52:49 +0000 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Randy Dunlap , David Woodhouse , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error Message-ID: <20070206135249.GB4566@lazybastard.org> References: <20070205163152.GA2464@elte.hu> <1170710272.29759.894.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1170711587.29759.909.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1170712393.29759.925.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070205143110.fca62b57.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1291 Lines: 31 On Mon, 5 February 2007 15:09:15 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Why? You could *trivially* have a tool tell you. Make "xconfig" or > something just pop up a window saying "sorry, you can't disable SCSI, > because you've got ATA enabled, and ATA wants SCSI". That would be useful for both select and depend, as many have pointed out. And ignoring the fairly subjective "be nice" part, either select or depend can completely get removed once the tools have it. What I disagree with is the *trivially* part. For one, the problem is known for some time and has annoyed enough people, yet we don't have patches yet. Secondly, we'd need patches for most, if not all tools. Not having used "xconfig" for the last eight years, I doubt that you'd reach a majority of users with any of the plethora of make *config targets. We _need_ this support and I welcome anyone getting his/her hands dirty writing it up. Jörn -- Fantasy is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while fantasy embraces the whole world. -- Albert Einstein - 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/