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Message-ID: <47802879.3080005@oracle.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:01:45 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
CC: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] USB Kconfig: Select SCSI for USB Mass Storage support
Stefan Richter wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> Whether or not an option requires an additional subsystem like e.g. SCSI
>> or SSB are hardware and implementation details we shouldn't bother
>> kconfig users with.
>
> What is an implementation detail and what is not? In the end,
> everything that we configure in Kconfig is implementation details.
>
> PS:
> Kill 'select' already, and instead work on better UIs if you have got
> trouble with the complexities of the dependencies graph. The graphic
> UIs including menuconfig currently work best for tree-like dependencies,
> but the graph isn't a tree. Think about how to present this properly in
> an UI. The Kconfig files are the wrong place to attack this problem.
>
> PPS:
> Really, it's *not* hard *at all* to configure a 2.6.24-rc6 kernel with
> USB storage support. I don't read linux-usb --- has there been repeated
> questions how to enable usb-storage in the kernel configuration? I can
I do read linux-usb. I don't think that USB storage configuration
is a big issue (currently, without using "select").
But that's just my take on it.
> tell you that there has been no such question about sbp2 (FireWire
> storage support) in years. Don't fix what ain't broken. In fact, don't
> /break/ what ain't broken by adding more of the (as yet) broken 'select'
> everywhere.
--
~Randy
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