Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] configfs: change depends -> select SYSFS | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:16:53 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 01:52 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: [...] > We already have different UIs. But perhaps we have too much UI down in > the Kconfig files. I.e., perhaps Kconfig shouldn't know the difference
IOMHO not really.
> between depends-on and select. Let the different UIs present the
The UI should know the difference as it should guide/force the user - especially the less experienced ones which aren't expected to know every bit of hardware and kernel-internal stuff (as in "do I need gzip compression?").
And there are two (IMHO very) different semantics: - select: enables/activates/includes necessary other parts (like the "gzip compression" example from above and other library-like). - depends on: to purposely disable knobs because it makes no sense to configure e.g. ext-specific stuff if I don't have/want ext or because the physical hardware is not present/available (find more and better in Al Viros mail of course).
> dependency graph to the operator in different ways, suitable to different > tasks.
That would be quite cute.
> /handwave off. AOL. Bernd -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at LUGA : http://www.luga.at
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