To: Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ATA Kconfig cleanup: sort the driver list and modify some text
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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:49:55 +0200
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Grant Coady <grant_lkml@dodo.com.au> writes:

>>How the user compiling the kernel knows what ATA_SFF stands for?
>
> They read the help text :)  

Well, can't say you're wrong...

>>Why not "select ATA_SFF" instead (when any driver using this is
>>selected)?
>
> Because then the driver list is always visible?

And it's IMHO great. Don't you like the full list immediately when
drivers/ata are selected?

> Besides, I don't like the way select locks in stuff at the moment, means 
> you have to turn off every option to get rid of the forced select option 
>  -- I'd rather see turning off a 'select'ed item drop all of its 
> dependencies.  

But it's not a problem with drivers/ata, is it?
Personally I think I'd prefer a dialog box listing dependencies and
asking what to do with that, and other improvements. I guess I should
start hacking kconfig some day.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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