On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 10:41 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Even better would be to teach the Kconfig sytem about this, so in
> arch/s390/Kconfig we do
> 
> disable       VT
> 
> and the Kconfig system knows not to offer VT, so there's no need to go
> adding `depends on !DISABLE_foo' all over the place.  The above DISABLE_foo
> convention just simulates that missing feature.

That would be a very useful feature to have. There are some border cases
where no real positive dependency exist. For that a "disable xxx" would
be perfect. But we still should use positive dependencies where possible
to keep the disable lists short.

-- 
blue skies,
  Martin.

Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.


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