Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754849AbXIHTdY (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 15:33:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754239AbXIHTdP (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 15:33:15 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:41281 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754156AbXIHTdO (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 15:33:14 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <46E2F8B8.5020003@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:32:08 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070807 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Randy Dunlap , Folkert van Heusden , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig References: <20070907124800.GP16806@vanheusden.com> <20070908095008.08eb4930.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070908181309.GA8647@one.firstfloor.org> <46E2EA2E.6020002@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070908191457.GB8647@one.firstfloor.org> In-Reply-To: <20070908191457.GB8647@one.firstfloor.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1120 Lines: 31 Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 08:30:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Andi Kleen wrote: >>> when you've been using CONFIG_IDE before it is not completely >>> obvious you need BLK_SD for your hard disk. >> Switching to different drivers without reading the help text? >> Tough. > > The individual driver descriptions don't say BLK_SD needs to be selected. At least the help to CONFIG_ATA says so. > Besides if all descriptions said that We certainly don't want (too much) redundancy in help texts. > the computer could as well > do it for the user automatically. After all it's a stupid repetive > task and computers are much better at those than humans. In your patch, it is not the computer who finds out that the user wants BLK_SD. It is you who predetermined that the user wants it. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== =--= -=--- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/