linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v6 3/9] kbuild: document RPS/XPS network Kconfig options

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Message-Id: <20111116.215901.100218898762260021.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:59:01 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	david.decotigny@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ian.campbell@...rix.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	jpirko@...hat.com, joe@...ches.com, szymon@...c.net.pl,
	rick.jones2@...com, AAbdulla@...dia.com, therbert@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 3/9] kbuild: document RPS/XPS network
 Kconfig options

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:54:03 +0000

> On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 17:54 -0800, David Decotigny wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Ben Hutchings
>> <bhutchings@...arflare.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 14:15 -0800, David Decotigny wrote:
>> >> This adds a description of RPS/XPS options and allow them to be
>> >> changed at make menuconfig time.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure why you think this is necessary.
>> 
>> On my copy, make menuconfig doesn't let me change these CONFIG_ items,
>> unless I add the string after "boolean", which this patch does. I
>> agree, the help I added after is pure cosmetic.
> [...]
> 
> I know, but I'm asking why you think it's necessary to make them
> optional.

They shouldn't be, they are internal dependency descriptions and should
be invisible to the user.
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