Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:49:33 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error |
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: > > Out of interest, which people would this be? Not me, certainly. > I _use_ select, for options which don't have questions. There were two > such instances in the context of Ingo's mail of $subject, even. > > And the thing Randy was saying "yes" to, which you elided but I've > restored in the above quotation, was the idea of turning 'select' into > 'depends on' for _user-visible_ options. NOT for the ones which don't > have a question.
Example: crypto api. SCSI. firewall "expert mode". Any number of things.
Qutie often, the questions themselves are *conditional*. For example, look at the whole INPUT layer thing. It is a real question, but only for EMBEDDED - normally, we just assume we'll use it (but it's a classic example of where we could have used a "select" from the keyboard driver instead).
For normal people, it's a question that simply shouldn't be asked. You don't ask normal users whether they want to hook up keyboards and mice (and trust me when I say that: we _used_ to ask. It generated tons of totally idiotic noise).
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