Re: [2.6 patch] let W1 select NET

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:11:28 +0200 (CEST) Roman Zippel wrote:

| Hi,
| 
| On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:
| 
| > But the similar case of USB_STORAGE selecting SCSI is an example where 
| > select is a big user-visible improvement over depends.
| 
| comment "USB storage requires SCSI"
| 	depends on SCSI=n
| 
| That's also user visible and doesn't confuse the user later, why he can't 
| deselect SCSI.

User-visible in xconfig (and gconfig?).  Not in menuconfig, right?
Maybe menuconfig's Help could also display dependency info...

| Abusing select is really the wrong answer. What is needed is an improved 
| user interface, which allows to search through the kconfig information or 
| even can match hardware information to a driver and aids the user in 
| selecting the required dependencies.

Nice idea.  So are there places where SELECT is the right thing to do,
i.e., it's required?  (examples, please)

| Keeping the kconfig database clean and making kernel configuration easier 
| are really two separate problems and we shouldn't sacrifice the former for 
| the latter.


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~Randy
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