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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/5] USB Kconfig: Select SCSI for USB Mass Storage support
    david@lang.hm wrote:
    > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Stefan Richter wrote:
    >> build-time configuration has to deal with different, more
    >> complex questions than run-time configuration.
    ...
    > what config options must be selected by the user at build time? (i.e. no
    > sane default can possibly be deduced from the hardware)
    >
    > there are a lot of options that, if selected, will affect the final
    > result significantly. but I can't think of any that can't have a
    > reasonable default.
    ...

    I agree that sets of defaults, e.g. based on usage profiles, help a lot.

    Alas the 'select' keyword enforces one particular profile. (And it is
    currently broken and generally dangerous and inefficient for
    dependencies deeper than one level.)
    --
    Stefan Richter
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    http://arcgraph.de/sr/


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