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SubjectRe: RFC: add an ADVANCED_USER option
>>>>> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> What we could do is to add an additional ADVANCED_USER option that
> hides options like VMSPLIT or the NAPI options for net drivers.

> config ADVANCED_USER
> bool "ask questions that require a deeper knowledge of the kernel"

> config EXPERIMENTAL
> bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
> depends on ADVANCED_USER

Shouldn't this be the other way around, i.e. ADVANCED_USER depending
on EXPERIMENTAL?

If you implement it as above, people will set ADVANCED_USER to "n" in
oldconfig and then be surprised that all experimental drivers are
gone.
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