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

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From: Roman Zippel <zippel@...>

To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...>

Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>, Russell King <rmk@...>, lkml <linux-kernel@...>, <netdev@...>, <linux-arm-kernel@...>

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

Date: Monday, May 7, 2007 - 7:22 am

Hi,

On Mon, 7 May 2007, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:

quoted text> Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> 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.

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
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[PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "select", Krzysztof Halasa, (Sun May 6, 8:06 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "se..., Roman Zippel, (Sun May 6, 9:44 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "se..., Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 5:35 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "se..., Roman Zippel, (Mon May 7, 7:22 am)

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Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "se..., Satyam Sharma, (Mon May 7, 2:15 pm)

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