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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error
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Mark Rustad wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2007, at 5:32 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> And I told you that you could just improve the tools that track those
>> dependencies ANYWAY!
> 
> They aren't that bad even now. Using menuconfig (I'm a fossil that just 
> uses curses for most things), hitting ? shows what depends or selects 
> any particular entry. That is good enough for me now. Maybe I am just 
> willing to ask for help, but the help already seems to be there.
> 
I think the problem Linus referenced with not even seeing an option is 
an issue, you can't "?" on an option you can't see. An I use menuconfig 
also, from long habit (accessing a remote compile server with slow dialup).

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