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

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Message-Id: <1170711669.29759.913.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:41:09 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.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, 2007-02-05 at 21:50 +0000, Alan wrote:
> > No, you're thinking of something else. The use of 'select' just turns
> > the problem backwards -- if _every_ SCSI hostadapter were to 'select
> > SCSI' instead of depending on it, then I'd have to say 'n' to every damn
> > one of them instead of being able to just say 'n' to SCSI as I can at
> > the moment.
> 
> Tools issue. You want a "really de-select right now" button  

That's a useful suggestion actually -- one answer to this bogus
proliferation of 'select' is to hack the tools so that they treat
occurrences of 'select' referring to a _visible_ option as the
dependencies which they _should_ have been, rather than this silly new
behaviour.

-- 
dwmw2

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