make xconfig says
"Warning! Found recursive dependency: INET IPV6 DLM (null) DLM_TCP INET"

Seems to be another example of how badly the "select" keyword is handled
by the .config make targets. Replace all occurences of "select" in dlm's
Kconfig by "depends on" and some additional help texts.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 fs/dlm/Kconfig |   20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.19-rc5-mm2/fs/dlm/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19-rc5-mm2.orig/fs/dlm/Kconfig    2006-11-18 13:25:31.000000000 
+0100
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc5-mm2/fs/dlm/Kconfig 2006-11-18 16:40:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,14 +1,22 @@
 menu "Distributed Lock Manager"
        depends on EXPERIMENTAL
 
+comment "DLM requires CONFIGFS_FS in section 'Pseudo filesystems'"
+       depends on CONFIGFS_FS=n
+
+comment "DLM requires at least one of INET and IP_SCTP in section 'Networking'"
+       depends on !(INET || IP_SCTP)
+
 config DLM
        tristate "Distributed Lock Manager (DLM)"
-       depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n
-       select CONFIGFS_FS
+       depends on (IPV6 || IPV6=n) && (INET || IP_SCTP) && CONFIGFS_FS
        help
        A general purpose distributed lock manager for kernel or userspace
        applications.
 
+       If you want to link DLM statically instead of as a module, configure
+       IPV6 as statically linked too or switch it off.
+
 choice
        prompt "Select DLM communications protocol"
        depends on DLM
@@ -18,13 +26,17 @@ choice
        SCTP supports multi-homed operations whereas TCP doesn't.
        However, SCTP seems to have stability problems at the moment.
 
+       Activate INET (TCP/IP networking) in the Networking section
+       to be able to use DLM over TCP.  Activate SCTP in the
+       Networking section to use DLM over SCTP.
+
 config DLM_TCP
        bool "TCP/IP"
-       select INET
+       depends on INET
 
 config DLM_SCTP
        bool "SCTP"
-       select IP_SCTP
+       depends on IP_SCTP
 
 endchoice
 


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