On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:56 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> btw., this whole select problem is not limited to Aunt Tillie: in a
> couple of cases in the past few months when i saw some weird code in
> a
> driver and tried to enable it i had to search around for many minutes
> and enable random options to figure out its config dependencies until
> i
> had the driver truly enabled. (if there's some easy solution to this
> then i'm all ears - but i exclude the easiest solution of adding me
> to
> the 'aunt' category ;-) I think that by blaming Aunt Tillie you might
> be
> missing the real problem.
the real problem is that we plain have way too many config options ;)
While it's nice to make some things conditional, I have the feeling that
things have gone too far in the kernel today....
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