> > the point is that it doesn't fall out naturally, and thus things get > > needlessly missed. > > It seems the main question is: > Is the kernel configuration mainly designed for users or for developers? > > For users, showing drivers for hardware that is not present on their > platform only causes confusion. well Aunt Tilly gets confused by all hardware that is not present on her machine; she has no idea what a platform is. By that reasoning, we should make kconfig hide all non-present hardware. Also I think there is no difference in confusion between showing 10 or 15 IDE chipsets. Either the user knows what he has (and then it doesn't matter) or those 10 are too much already. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
