Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030532AbXBFXS3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:18:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030553AbXBFXS3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:18:29 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:58156 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030532AbXBFXS2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:18:28 -0500 Subject: Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error From: David Woodhouse To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Randy Dunlap , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <20070205162635.GA755@elte.hu> <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> <1170717694.29759.941.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1170755101.29759.960.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1170801484.29759.1000.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070206143956.b09c674d.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:18:20 +0000 Message-Id: <1170803900.29759.1040.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: 1573 Lines: 37 On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:11 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > But it doesn't matter. I'll come up with a hack for the tools which make > > > them (optionally) treat 'select' of a user-visible option as if it > > > was just 'depends on'. And that should fix the problem. > > > > 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". > > You'll probably have to do *more* changes to the tools than my suggestion > to just make them let you know why they can't turn something off, though. > Why? Some things don't even have questions at all right now, and their > only life is as implied options that are turned on by others. > > And yes, some silly people who hate "select" have tried to turn them into Out of interest, which people would this be? Not me, certainly. I _use_ select, for options which don't have questions. There were two such instances in the context of Ingo's mail of $subject, even. And the thing Randy was saying "yes" to, which you elided but I've restored in the above quotation, was the idea of turning 'select' into 'depends on' for _user-visible_ options. NOT for the ones which don't have a question. -- 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/