On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:11 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > But it doesn't matter. I'll come up with a hack for the tools which make > > > them (optionally) treat 'select' of a user-visible option as if it > > > was just 'depends on'. And that should fix the problem. > > > > Yes, that's the solution that I decided on during lunch also: > > select <==> depends on > > I think yuou can certainly enable an "expert mode", which just reads > "select" as "depends on". > > You'll probably have to do *more* changes to the tools than my suggestion > to just make them let you know why they can't turn something off, though. > Why? Some things don't even have questions at all right now, and their > only life is as implied options that are turned on by others. > > And yes, some silly people who hate "select" have tried to turn them into
Out of interest, which people would this be? Not me, certainly. I _use_ select, for options which don't have questions. There were two such instances in the context of Ingo's mail of $subject, even. And the thing Randy was saying "yes" to, which you elided but I've restored in the above quotation, was the idea of turning 'select' into 'depends on' for _user-visible_ options. NOT for the ones which don't have a question. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
