netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: make CONFIG_BQL actually end user configurable

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Message-ID: <4F558E6E.4000707@intel.com>
Date:	Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:11:26 -0800
From:	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
CC:	therbert@...gle.com, davem@...emloft.net, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: make CONFIG_BQL actually end user configurable

On 3/5/2012 7:38 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Without the defining string or help text, LKC won't ever bother
> to ask the end user for a setting for CONFIG_BQL -- you could
> delete it from your .config and run make oldconfig and not a
> thing would change -- it would still be silently re-enabled.
> 
> While most people will have no reason to turn this off, the
> ability to do so can be useful for testing BQL support additions
> on previously BQL-unaware drivers and similar.
> 
> The kconfig help text is largely taken from the original RFC
> patchset 0/N header sent to netdev@...r.kernel.org in fall 2011.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
> ---
> 
> [Apologies if this was explicitly blocked for a reason; I couldn't
>  find a reason after searching netdev or threads at bufferbloat.net ]
> 

It was intentional "The Kconfig entry and option is merely for
expressing internal dependencies,". See the comments in the patch

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/128727/

And corresponding mail,

http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2011/12/01/130

.John
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