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SubjectRe: [git patches] 2.6.x net driver updates
On Thu, Jan 12 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > >
> > > dann frazier:
> > > CONFIG_AIRO needs CONFIG_CRYPTO
> >
> > I think this is done wrong.
> >
> > It should "select CRYPTO" rather than "depends on CRYPTO".
> >
> > Otherwise people won't see it just because they don't have crypto enabled,
> > which is not very user-friendly.
> >
>
> Yes, I think that's much more Aunt-Nellie-friendly, but Roman considers it
> abuse of the Kconfig system in ways which I never completely understood?

'select' is really cool as a concept, but when you can't figure out why
you cannot disable CONFIG_FOO because CONFIG_BAR selects it it's really
annoying. Would be nice to actually be able to see if another option has
selected this option.

--
Jens Axboe

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