Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030194AbXBFWyF (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:54:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030234AbXBFWyF (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:54:05 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:54264 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030194AbXBFWyC (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:54:02 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:53:47 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: David Woodhouse cc: Randy Dunlap , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error In-Reply-To: <1170801484.29759.1000.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <1170801484.29759.1000.camel@pmac.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 774 Lines: 23 On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: > > I claim that there are _better_ ways to do it than 'select'. I don't think you've ever showed any such example. And if you did, it would all boil down to *exactly* what 'select' does: config options that get set automatically based on other choices. So care to give a real example? Start with USB automatically selecting SCSI support without the user having to even know it uses SCSI. Tell me how it's supposed to work sanely without 'select'. Put up, or shut up. Linus - 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/