Jörn Engel wrote: ... > The actual problem existed before select just as it does afterwards. > People have to search extensively though Kconfig files to come up with > a useful .config. Before people had to magically know that > USB_STORAGE requires SCSI. "Magically" because USB_STORAGE didn't > show up in either make menuconfig, make xconfig or .config. Now > people have to magically know that SCSI=n requires USB_STORAGE=n. Yes and no. In the latter case, they have to magically know that at least menuconfig and xconfig can be tricked to list depending options. > What this shows is that select was a bad idea, as it merely shifted > the problem around instead of fixing it. It appears as if Stefan is > looking in the right direction for a decent fix and I'd like to see > patches from him. ... Could be a fun project right after Stefan R got rid of the kernel freezes (months old) and data corruptions (years old) assigned to him at bugzilla.kernel.org... -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- =--= ----= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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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