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

On Mon, 07 May 2007 16:31:48 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote:

Satyam Sharma wrote:

quoted

Yes, mixing select and depends is a recipe for build disasters. Call
me a rabid fanatic, but I would in fact go as far as to say that this
whole "select" thing in the Kconfig process is one big BUG, and not a
feature. People are lazy by nature and would rather just "select" a
dependency for their config option than burden users with several
"depends".

Tough, the kernel community has voted against you.

Andrew (usually) implores people not to use "select" and I agree
with him.

It makes far more sense to include a driver during kernel configuration, 
and have that driver pull in its libraries via 'select'.  The lame 
alternative requires developers to know which libraries they need BEFORE 
picking their drivers, which is backwards and requires legwork on the 
part of the kernel developer.

Developers?  If you had said "users," I might agree, but IMO it's
OK (or even Good) for developers to know what libraries their code
uses/requires.  Yes, that's a good thing.


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