Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755101AbXEDMro (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 08:47:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755117AbXEDMro (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 08:47:44 -0400 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([209.217.80.40]:60382 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755021AbXEDMrn (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 08:47:43 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] jffs2: Add LZO compression support to jffs2 From: David Woodhouse To: Haavard Skinnemoen Cc: Richard Purdie , Randy Dunlap , Satyam Sharma , linux-mtd , LKML In-Reply-To: <20070504144146.6a91d974@dhcp-252-105.norway.atmel.com> References: <1178278255.5839.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1178278532.11120.274.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070504144146.6a91d974@dhcp-252-105.norway.atmel.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 13:47:32 +0100 Message-Id: <1178282852.11120.282.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 (2.10.1-4.fc7.dwmw2.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.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: 1192 Lines: 31 On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 14:41 +0200, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: > > Hmm...everything else in lib/Kconfig is supposed to be _selected_, not > depended upon. And the only three items in there which can actually be > selected by the user all begin their helptexts with > > "This option is provided for the case where no in-kernel-tree modules > require FOO functions". > > Are you sure it's a good idea to break with existing practice? I'm > concerned that nobody will ever find the JFFS2_LZO option if it means > they will have to go all the way down to the "Library functions" menu > and select something to make the option visible... That would seem be a tools problem. Nevertheless, if I merge it with 'select', won't it break while the core LZO patches aren't yet upstream? Of course, one could argue that that's also a tools problem. All this proliferation of 'select' is doing is moving problems around rather than solving them. -- 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/