On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:56 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > btw., this whole select problem is not limited to Aunt Tillie: in a > couple of cases in the past few months when i saw some weird code in > a > driver and tried to enable it i had to search around for many minutes > and enable random options to figure out its config dependencies until > i > had the driver truly enabled. (if there's some easy solution to this > then i'm all ears - but i exclude the easiest solution of adding me > to > the 'aunt' category ;-) I think that by blaming Aunt Tillie you might > be > missing the real problem.
the real problem is that we plain have way too many config options ;) While it's nice to make some things conditional, I have the feeling that things have gone too far in the kernel today.... -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - 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/
