On Saturday 29 September 2007 00:34, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > God I hate select. > > > > IMO a better implementation would result in a notification / confirmation > > of turning on new items, and the ability to deselect options which will > > also confirm to deselect dependants. Like most other systems that have > > similar problem to solve. > > Actually, the *really* nice thing to do would be to just add the reason > something got enabled into the ".config" file. > > IOW, wouldn't it be nice if the .config file just said > > ... > CONFIG_ACPI=y # selected by X86_64_ACPI_NUMA > CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y # user choice > ... > > etc, since the config process actually does know these things?
Sure, that would probably be pretty trivial to implement too, and would solve most problems for kernel devs. At a level up from that, I think ease of use could be improved with a package manager-type chained-selection/deselection feature in the config tools. Not that I'm volunteering to implement either ;) > > That way, there's always a fairly straightforward way to see why some > configuration is the way it is (and the .config file is not only useful > for "make oldconfig", it's also what normally gets passed around for bug > reports, and is part of distro kernel packages etc, so it would seem to be > the right place, no?) > > Linus - 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/
