On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 13:51 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > I dislike select, but reality is that modules do need to select/enable > library code and minor features sometimes. > > OTOH, where drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig:ACPI_CMPC does "select INPUT" > to enable an entire subsystem is wrong and bad IMO.
This is just a deficiency in the tools. The correct answer is to fix the damn tools, not invent this silly 'select' facility which means much the same thing as 'depends on' but is implemented differently. As long ago as the mid-1990s, the Nemesis research OS was using a tcl xconfig tool based on the Linux one, but which would show you the dependencies for an option that was disabled, so you could enable them where you needed to. Rather than just hiding the option completely. -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
