On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 13:49 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Can you read? Can you UNDERSTAND? > > This is exactly my point. > > If it's not obviously a SCSI card, then it shouldn't be "depends on SCSI". > It should be on its own and "select SCSI". > > The whole AND ALMOST ONLY point of "depends on" is really to allow people > to do a shorthand or know that "ok, he gave us some information that makes > this choice pointless". You're asking _me_ if I can read? Ten years ago, people used 'depends on' to fix the tools, so that then you want to enable something like USB_STORAGE, it can automatically turn SCSI on for you. Isn't that what you wanted? You don't need to screw over the technical users -- the _common_ case -- in order to achieve that. We had it. TEN YEARS AGO. In the tools. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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