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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, that's the solution that I decided on during lunch also:
> > 	select <==> depends on
> 
> I think yuou can certainly enable an "expert mode", which just reads 
> "select" as "depends on".

Actually, it's probably more useful if you do it for a single symbol only.

If you really want to force something off, mark that *single* symbol as 
having "select <that-symbol>" being translated into "depends on", and it 
will probably work fine in practice.

		Linus
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