linux-kernel - Re: Ingo, no more kconfig patches

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Date:	Sun, 04 May 2008 01:37:47 +0200
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Ingo, no more kconfig patches

Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> writes:

> FB_SGIVW requires X86_VISWS and it's selected automatically.
>
> (which is not good if you want a kernel that runs on a PC)

Not sure what do you mean, it currently seem to "depend" on X86_VISWS:

config FB_SGIVW
        tristate "SGI Visual Workstation framebuffer support"
        depends on FB && X86_VISWS
        select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
        select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
        select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT

> Why do we have to bother users with the MII option at all?
>
> "E1000E=m and TULIP=m but MII=y" works, but it doesn't really make 
> sense.

(Obviously it assumes both TULIP and E1000E required MII which is not
exactly the case)

But it makes a perfect sense, I can have modular drivers for (few)
hardware devices (just in case I want to rmmod etc) but most of the
kernel may be not modular. It would be nice if the Kconfig ask me if
I want to "select" the dependency Y or M, even if there is only one
way to make "select" dependencies happy (not counting "Y vs "M").
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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