On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 03:11:57PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Why the hell should a OCFS2 user have to know that he needs to enable > configfs to be able to enable ocfs2? > > The thing is, we should do exactly the reverse of what you say, and > work towards the goal of "depends on" going away. Right now, the main > reason to use "depends on" is actually just that our Kconfig solvers > are stupid, and don't generally handle "select" very well. But that's > hopefully getting fixed. How do you eliminate things like "it really depends on having DMA"? When we configure e.g. s390 or uml kernel, it's not like we could enable a PCI driver and have architecture magically switch to a PCI-supporting one, after all... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
