Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966882AbXEGU6O (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 16:58:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966635AbXEGU6K (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 16:58:10 -0400 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:3659 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966607AbXEGU6J (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 16:58:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 22:57:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Jeff Garzik cc: Satyam Sharma , Krzysztof Halasa , Russell King , lkml , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "select" In-Reply-To: <463F8CB4.3040603@garzik.org> Message-ID: References: <463F27CE.2040008@garzik.org> <463F8CB4.3040603@garzik.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: 848 Lines: 22 Hi, On Mon, 7 May 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Tough, the kernel community has voted against you. > > It makes far more sense to include a driver during kernel configuration, and > have that driver pull in its libraries via 'select'. The lame alternative > requires developers to know which libraries they need BEFORE picking their > drivers, which is backwards and requires legwork on the part of the kernel > developer. Jeff, there was never anything to "vote" about! There is no autoconfiguration, kernel configuration isn't ready for Aunt Tilly and select is no substitute for it... bye, Roman - 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/