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    SubjectRe: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error
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    On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:56 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
    >
    > btw., this whole select problem is not limited to Aunt Tillie: in a
    > couple of cases in the past few months when i saw some weird code in
    > a
    > driver and tried to enable it i had to search around for many minutes
    > and enable random options to figure out its config dependencies until
    > i
    > had the driver truly enabled. (if there's some easy solution to this
    > then i'm all ears - but i exclude the easiest solution of adding me
    > to
    > the 'aunt' category ;-) I think that by blaming Aunt Tillie you might
    > be
    > missing the real problem.

    the real problem is that we plain have way too many config options ;)
    While it's nice to make some things conditional, I have the feeling that
    things have gone too far in the kernel today....


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