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

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Message-Id: <1170691688.3107.31.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:08:08 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:56 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> btw., this whole select problem is not limited to Aunt Tillie: in a 
> couple of cases in the past few months when i saw some weird code in
> a 
> driver and tried to enable it i had to search around for many minutes 
> and enable random options to figure out its config dependencies until
> i 
> had the driver truly enabled. (if there's some easy solution to this 
> then i'm all ears - but i exclude the easiest solution of adding me
> to 
> the 'aunt' category ;-) I think that by blaming Aunt Tillie you might
> be 
> missing the real problem. 

the real problem is that we plain have way too many config options ;)
While it's nice to make some things conditional, I have the feeling that
things have gone too far in the kernel today....


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