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    SubjectRe: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error
    On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:56:27PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
    > btw., this whole select problem is not limited to Aunt Tillie: in a
    > couple of cases in the past few months when i saw some weird code in a
    > driver and tried to enable it i had to search around for many minutes
    > and enable random options to figure out its config dependencies until i
    > had the driver truly enabled. (if there's some easy solution to this
    > then i'm all ears - but i exclude the easiest solution of adding me to
    > the 'aunt' category ;-) I think that by blaming Aunt Tillie you might be
    > missing the real problem.

    Adding a 'select' statement might solve that particular problem:

    "What config symbols do I need to turn on to enable FOO"

    but it creates another problem which is at precisely the same level.
    IOW:

    "What config symbols do I need to turn off to disable FOO"

    Both require the use of grep to solve it. Both are as bad as each
    other. 'select' only moves the problem - it doesn't actually solve
    anything.

    The real problem is that "band-aiding" the problem is all too easy,
    so we just bung a select in. We're actually storing up bigger problems
    for the future, making the kernel configuration system more and more
    complex, sometimes creating circular dependencies through select/depends,
    basically turning it into something several orders of magnitude worse
    than the original shell scripts.

    The only real way I see the problem truely getting solved is if folk
    start standing up against throwing "select" in so there's some
    motivation to actually fix the underlying problem.

    --
    Russell King
    Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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