Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error

[Russell King]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:52:33PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > and the rest (ie, except integrator, versatile and ixp4xx) has:
> > 
> > config ARCH_SHARK
> >         bool "Shark"
> >         select PCI
> > 
> > IOW, the "PCI support" question isn't offered for platforms which 
> > require PCI to be present, but is offered on platforms where it's 
> > optional.
> 
> yeah. I think this also fits into the special-case i mentioned: it isnt 
> connected to something user-selectable, it's a side-effect of the first 
> 'feature selection' the user does: 'what platform do you compile your 
> kernel on'. As such it is a convenience group-selection.
> 
> i.e. what we have behind this is still a clean tree of dependencies.

I agree 100% with that - since when that happens it's possible to
traverse the tree to tell the user what's going on.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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