Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761518AbXI1Of1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:35:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755210AbXI1OfP (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:35:15 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:37262 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754257AbXI1OfN (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:35:13 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:34:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Nick Piggin cc: Andrew Morton , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Andreas Herrmann , Eric Van Hensbergen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL In-Reply-To: <200709280740.40163.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <20070918080537.GA14882@devil> <20070919233110.18a057ac.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200709280740.40163.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> 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: 1228 Lines: 35 On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > God I hate select. > > IMO a better implementation would result in a notification / confirmation of > turning on new items, and the ability to deselect options which will also > confirm to deselect dependants. Like most other systems that have similar > problem to solve. Actually, the *really* nice thing to do would be to just add the reason something got enabled into the ".config" file. IOW, wouldn't it be nice if the .config file just said ... CONFIG_ACPI=y # selected by X86_64_ACPI_NUMA CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y # user choice ... etc, since the config process actually does know these things? That way, there's always a fairly straightforward way to see why some configuration is the way it is (and the .config file is not only useful for "make oldconfig", it's also what normally gets passed around for bug reports, and is part of distro kernel packages etc, so it would seem to be the right place, no?) Linus - 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/