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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20070205165045.GD4563@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:50:45 +0000
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 08:32:50AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> If "X" then needs Y, Z and something else to actually compile, then that 
> Kconfig file should DAMN WELL use "select". Stop claiming anything else!

Disagree.  The UI app should handle this and ask the user if it's okay
to proceed to enable that option along with the others.

All we should be doing in the Kconfig files is describing the
dependencies for user-visible symbols.  If we want to allow the
user to enable something, it's up to the UI _itself_ to sort out the
dependencies.

Principle of least surprise.  Principle of giving the user control.

As I say at the moment throwing "select" is just moving the bloody
problem around.  It's not actually _solving_ anything, and anyone
who thinks otherwise is a nutcase!

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/