On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 14:53 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I don't think you've ever showed any such example. > > And if you did, it would all boil down to *exactly* what 'select' does: > config options that get set automatically based on other choices.
That's one option which I don't think I've seen implemented. The other possibility which comes to mind, and which I _have_ seen implemented, is not to hide the disabled option but to _show_ it, and represent its dependencies right there next to it somehow. Where I saw this done was actually in the Nemesis kernel configuration, which was based on our old tcl xconfig tool. It actually worked quite well. It's a _long_ time ago now, but IIRC it was in a cell below the disabled option. It'd look something like (remember hte old xconfig?): ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | USB Mass storage support | o Y o M ✓ N | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | depends on: o SCSI ✓ USB | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm sure I had a screenshot of it once. But it doesn't matter; you get the idea -- our current tools would do it differently anyway. But they _could_ do it. > So care to give a real example? Start with USB automatically selecting > SCSI support without the user having to even know it uses SCSI. Tell me > how it's supposed to work sanely without 'select'. Well one option, as you suggest, is just that if you go into the graphical tool and enable USB_STORAGE, you get SCSI turned on automatically. That's simple enough and the xconfig tool can do it quite easily. It just needs to _show_ you the option, which isn't particularly hard. But what I care about is that when you when you explicitly set # CONFIG_SCSI is not set and run 'make oldconfig' it doesn't get turned back on again. But as I said, I'm not entirely averse to having to do 'make oldconfig-noselect' or something like that to preserve the old behaviour. And then you can sprinkle 'select' wherever you like without bothering those of us who object. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
