On Thu, Jan 12 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > > > dann frazier: > > > CONFIG_AIRO needs CONFIG_CRYPTO > > > > I think this is done wrong. > > > > It should "select CRYPTO" rather than "depends on CRYPTO". > > > > Otherwise people won't see it just because they don't have crypto enabled, > > which is not very user-friendly. > > > > Yes, I think that's much more Aunt-Nellie-friendly, but Roman considers it > abuse of the Kconfig system in ways which I never completely understood?
'select' is really cool as a concept, but when you can't figure out why you cannot disable CONFIG_FOO because CONFIG_BAR selects it it's really annoying. Would be nice to actually be able to see if another option has selected this option. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
