Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:01:45 -0800 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] USB Kconfig: Select SCSI for USB Mass Storage support |
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Stefan Richter wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: >> Whether or not an option requires an additional subsystem like e.g. SCSI >> or SSB are hardware and implementation details we shouldn't bother >> kconfig users with. > > What is an implementation detail and what is not? In the end, > everything that we configure in Kconfig is implementation details. > > PS: > Kill 'select' already, and instead work on better UIs if you have got > trouble with the complexities of the dependencies graph. The graphic > UIs including menuconfig currently work best for tree-like dependencies, > but the graph isn't a tree. Think about how to present this properly in > an UI. The Kconfig files are the wrong place to attack this problem. > > PPS: > Really, it's *not* hard *at all* to configure a 2.6.24-rc6 kernel with > USB storage support. I don't read linux-usb --- has there been repeated > questions how to enable usb-storage in the kernel configuration? I can
I do read linux-usb. I don't think that USB storage configuration is a big issue (currently, without using "select"). But that's just my take on it.
> tell you that there has been no such question about sbp2 (FireWire > storage support) in years. Don't fix what ain't broken. In fact, don't > /break/ what ain't broken by adding more of the (as yet) broken 'select' > everywhere.
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