Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:11 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > But it doesn't matter. I'll come up with a hack for the tools which make
> > > them (optionally) treat 'select' of a user-visible option as if it
> > > was just 'depends on'. And that should fix the problem.
> >
> > Yes, that's the solution that I decided on during lunch also:
> > 	select <==> depends on
> 
> I think yuou can certainly enable an "expert mode", which just reads 
> "select" as "depends on".
> 
> You'll probably have to do *more* changes to the tools than my suggestion 
> to just make them let you know why they can't turn something off, though. 
> Why? Some things don't even have questions at all right now, and their 
> only life is as implied options that are turned on by others.
> 
> And yes, some silly people who hate "select" have tried to turn them into

Out of interest, which people would this be? Not me, certainly.
I _use_ select, for options which don't have questions. There were two
such instances in the context of Ingo's mail of $subject, even.

And the thing Randy was saying "yes" to, which you elided but I've
restored in the above quotation, was the idea of turning 'select' into
'depends on' for _user-visible_ options. NOT for the ones which don't
have a question.

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dwmw2