Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Feb 2007 08:58:10 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error |
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > but this is /only/ practical if all (even disabled) features are visible > (and selectable) in the tools. They are not at the moment, so selects > are quite useful.
More importantly, some things that *are* visible probably shouldn't be, or should perhaps only be in expert mode (aka "EMBEDDED").
A prime example of this is all the firewall settings. I'd personally prefer to just select a "default firewall setup" which would be enough for all the normal crud, instead of seeing 50 different choices.
And dammit, I'm supposed to be "technical". So if _I_ find it irritating to have to select all those NF_MATCH_xxx/NF_TARGET_xxx crud things, imagine what most people must feel like?
Me, I'd like to say I want "default firewall built in", and not have to see *any* of the crap. And that's exactly why "select" is a good thing.
Not using select, and have people having to say "y" to the basic feature and then y/m/n to each sub-feature is really damn annoying.
So thank God for the few selects we have, and we should add a whole lot more!
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