On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:40:20AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> According to Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt, "select" is OK to 
> use on non-visible options like NFS_ACL_SUPPORT, LOCKD, and SUNRPC, but 
> generally "depends on" is preferred for setting visible options.  
> Apparently "select" doesn't do proper dependency checking, it just forces 
> the value of the named option.
>
> NFS_FS looks correct in this regard.
>
> However, NFSD is probably not correct... for example, instead of "select 
> NFSD_TCP if NFSD_V4" we should probably instead add a "depends on 
> NFSD_TCP" under NFSD_V4.

OK.

> (Alternately, NFSD_TCP could just go away... hint hint).

I guess that would be OK by me, but I'm not volunteering.

> I'll propose some patches to rectify some of this and fix up the out- 
> of-date help texts.

That'd be great, thanks!

--b.
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