On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 14:41 +0200, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
>
> Hmm...everything else in lib/Kconfig is supposed to be _selected_, not
> depended upon. And the only three items in there which can actually be
> selected by the user all begin their helptexts with
>
> "This option is provided for the case where no in-kernel-tree modules
> require FOO functions".
>
> Are you sure it's a good idea to break with existing practice? I'm
> concerned that nobody will ever find the JFFS2_LZO option if it means
> they will have to go all the way down to the "Library functions" menu
> and select something to make the option visible...
That would seem be a tools problem.
Nevertheless, if I merge it with 'select', won't it break while the core
LZO patches aren't yet upstream?
Of course, one could argue that that's also a tools problem. All this
proliferation of 'select' is doing is moving problems around rather than
solving them.
--
dwmw2
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