On Thu, Jan 12 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
 > 
 > dann frazier:
 >       CONFIG_AIRO needs CONFIG_CRYPTO

 I think this is done wrong.

 It should "select CRYPTO" rather than "depends on CRYPTO".

 Otherwise people won't see it just because they don't have crypto enabled, 
 which is not very user-friendly.

Yes, I think that's much more Aunt-Nellie-friendly, but Roman considers it
abuse of the Kconfig system in ways which I never completely understood?

'select' is really cool as a concept, but when you can't figure out why
you cannot disable CONFIG_FOO because CONFIG_BAR selects it it's really
annoying. Would be nice to actually be able to see if another option has
selected this option.

-- 
Jens Axboe