Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "select"

Roman Zippel [off-list ref] writes:

What's the advantage? The HDLC option is directly before this?

You don't have to know it's required, you can just select a driver
for your hardware, without enabling HDLC first.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa

Hi,

On Mon, 7 May 2007, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:

Roman Zippel [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

What's the advantage? The HDLC option is directly before this?

You don't have to know it's required, you can just select a driver
for your hardware, without enabling HDLC first.

Is this a real problem?
Using select you should also consider removing HDLC as visible option and 
use only select. Mixing depends and selects is generally a bad idea.

bye, Roman