On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 03:05:52PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > What we could do is to add an additional ADVANCED_USER option that
> > hides options like VMSPLIT or the NAPI options for net drivers.
>
> > config ADVANCED_USER
> > bool "ask questions that require a deeper knowledge of the kernel"
>
> > config EXPERIMENTAL
> > bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
> > depends on ADVANCED_USER
>
> Shouldn't this be the other way around, i.e. ADVANCED_USER depending
> on EXPERIMENTAL?
No, if there's a dependency between the two, then in this direction.
> If you implement it as above, people will set ADVANCED_USER to "n" in
> oldconfig and then be surprised that all experimental drivers are
> gone.
What about no dependency between ADVANCED_USER and EXPERIMENTAL?
cu
Adrian
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