netdev - Re: [PATCH] cxgb{3,4}: streamline Kconfig options

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Message-Id: <4D64E5720200007800033420@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:46:10 +0000
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	<divy@...lsio.com>, <dm@...lsio.com>,
	<linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cxgb{3,4}: streamline Kconfig options

>>> On 22.02.11 at 19:14, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:29:30 +0000
> 
>> The CHELSIO_T{3,4}_DEPENDS options are really awkward, and can be
>> easily dropped if the reverse dependencies of SCSI_CXGB{3,4}_ISCSI on
>> the former get converted to normal (forward) ones referring to
>> CHELSIO_T{3,4}.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>
> 
> I think the goal of these strange rules is not to be complicated
> on purpose, but rather to cause the iSCSI drivers to appear without
> the user having to know that he needs to enable the networking
> driver in order for that to happen.

While I realize that this might have been the reason, it's completely
contrary to how everyone else writes dependencies, and hence I
think these should be removed.

Jan

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