Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:55:09 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error |
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: > > Really, if our config is set up in sensible submenus (as in general it > _is_), the "see everything" behaviour really isn't bad.
There are two fundamental problems with that statement:
- no, it really isn't always
Quite often, our Kconfig files have dependencies that are about where the *code* exists, rather than about some nice hierarchical system.
Think of it this way: would you use a programming language that didn't allow you anything but totally hierarcical language constructs? No sane person would - because real life isn't hierarchical. Yes, there are many things that are, but not all things are.
Example: many cryptographic algorithms are in crypto/. But then a lot of them ARE NOT. They are in arch/so-and-so/crypto/ or similar. Notice?
NOT HIERARCHICAL.
- I don't use menus at all. I use the good old textual "make oldconfig". Trust me, I _want_ those irrelevant questions gone. They aren't "grayed out".
So you seem to have this *wish* that real life was different than it is. But we aren't hierarchical, and even if we were, it *still* wouldn't work the way you want things to work.
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