Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:19:01 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] configfs: change depends -> select SYSFS |
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On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 03:11:57PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Why the hell should a OCFS2 user have to know that he needs to enable > configfs to be able to enable ocfs2? > > The thing is, we should do exactly the reverse of what you say, and > work towards the goal of "depends on" going away. Right now, the main > reason to use "depends on" is actually just that our Kconfig solvers > are stupid, and don't generally handle "select" very well. But that's > hopefully getting fixed.
How do you eliminate things like "it really depends on having DMA"? When we configure e.g. s390 or uml kernel, it's not like we could enable a PCI driver and have architecture magically switch to a PCI-supporting one, after all...
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