Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "select"

Satyam Sharma wrote:

Yes, mixing select and depends is a recipe for build disasters. Call
me a rabid fanatic, but I would in fact go as far as to say that this
whole "select" thing in the Kconfig process is one big BUG, and not a
feature. People are lazy by nature and would rather just "select" a
dependency for their config option than burden users with several
"depends".

Tough, the kernel community has voted against you.

It makes far more sense to include a driver during kernel configuration, and have that driver pull in its libraries via 'select'. The lame alternative requires developers to know which libraries they need BEFORE picking their drivers, which is backwards and requires legwork on the part of the kernel developer.

	Jeff


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