Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:30:40 -0800 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: >> It isn't that far off, and we could improve it if we wanted to. In >> _general_ it's quite good already. > > I agree that it's close to hierarchical. But it's literally the exceptions > that get you. > > Let me mention (again) USB_STORAGE and ATA. > > They are not "under" SCSI. Making them do that would be insane. > > But yes, you can do hierarchies by adding "pseudo-variables": as > mentioned several times, we could actually split CONFIG_SCSI into two > separate ones: CONFIG_SCSI that selects the core infrastructure, and > CONFIG_SCSI_DRIVER that actually controls the "hierarchical visibility". > > Then CONFIG_SCSI_DRIVER (and USB_STORAGE, and SATA) would just do a simple > 'select SCSI'. It would _not_ be hierarchical, and it would very much use > that same old "select", but it would possibly be a cleanup at least in the > sense that now CONFIG_SCSI wouldn't be used two different ways (one to > hide most SCSI drivers, and one to enable the core SCSI infrastructure > code). > >> It would work quite nicely in the graphical tools, although you've >> thrown me a little by wanting it in the hacker's tool 'oldconfig' too. >> You obviously care more about turning stuff _on_ with 'make oldconfig' >> while other people who've spoken up seem to care more, as I do, about >> turning stuff _off_ that way. If I want my hand held, I'm happy enough >> to use the graphical tools. > > I tend to just edit the .config file, and run "make oldconfig". And I know > I'm not the only one, because I've talked to others who do the same. > > And yes, then it's almost always correct to "turn things on as needed to > make everything work out right", while turning things off would be > actively wrong.
That seems odd to me. I usually use edit + oldconfig to disable a symbol. Maybe to enable a symbol occasionally. But the symbols that I want to enable usually aren't listed in .config at all, so I end up using another config tool to enable them. E.g., a sound driver when SOUND is completely disabled.
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