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

view
thread

Previous message: [thread] [date] [author]
Next message: [thread] [date] [author]

[view in full thread]

From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>

To: Roman Zippel <zippel@...>

Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...>, 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 - 9:21 am

Roman Zippel wrote:

quoted text

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 7 May 2007, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>
>> Actually I can't see any bad idea here.
>> The original dependency was certainly, uhm, not the best one.
>
> select seriously screws with the dependencies, it's especially problematic
> if the selected symbol has other dependencies as HDLC in this case, it
> makes it only more complicated to get the dependencies correct again.
> Please use it only if it solves a real problem.

What he's doing is the standard way to deal with library-style code.
Nothing wrong with the patch, it's continuing established methods.

Jeff

unsubscribe notice

To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Previous message: [thread] [date] [author]
Next message: [thread] [date] [author]

Messages in current thread:

[PATCH 0/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Sun May 6, 7:46 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 9:40 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Leon Woestenberg, (Mon May 7, 4:39 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 5:21 pm)

[PATCH 2a/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 6:27 am)

[PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Sun May 6, 8:07 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Lennert Buytenhek, (Tue May 8, 7:40 am)

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Michael-Luke Jones, (Mon May 7, 8:59 am)

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 1:12 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Michael-Luke Jones, (Mon May 7, 2:14 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 3:57 pm)

[PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 9:19 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and ..., Lennert Buytenhek, (Tue May 8, 7:37 am)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and ..., Krzysztof Halasa, (Tue May 8, 10:31 am)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and ..., Lennert Buytenhek, (Tue May 8, 10:53 am)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and ..., Krzysztof Halasa, (Tue May 8, 1:17 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and ..., Michael-Luke Jones, (Tue May 8, 3:22 am)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and ..., Jeff Garzik, (Tue May 8, 1:28 am)

[PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 8:46 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Lennert Buytenhek, (Tue May 8, 7:32 am)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Krzysztof Halasa, (Tue May 8, 10:12 am)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Lennert Buytenhek, (Tue May 8, 10:40 am)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Krzysztof Halasa, (Tue May 8, 12:59 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Lennert Buytenhek, (Wed May 9, 6:21 am)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Krzysztof Halasa, (Thu May 10, 10:08 am)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Alexey Zaytsev, (Tue May 8, 8:47 am)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Lennert Buytenhek, (Tue May 8, 8:59 am)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Michael-Luke Jones, (Tue May 8, 3:05 am)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Krzysztof Halasa, (Tue May 8, 9:57 am)

[PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - NPE, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 8:36 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - NPE, Michael-Luke Jones, (Tue May 8, 3:02 am)

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - NPE, Krzysztof Halasa, (Tue May 8, 9:56 am)

[PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 8:11 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Christian Hohnstaedt, (Mon May 7, 1:52 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 4:00 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Lennert Buytenhek, (Tue May 8, 7:48 am)

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Tue May 8, 9:47 am)

[PATCH 2/3] ARM: include IXP4xx "fuses" support, Krzysztof Halasa, (Sun May 6, 8:07 pm)

Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: include IXP4xx "fuses" support, Alexey Zaytsev, (Mon May 7, 1:24 am)

Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: include IXP4xx "fuses" support, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 6:24 am)

[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)

Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "se..., Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 7:56 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "se..., Roman Zippel, (Mon May 7, 9:17 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "se..., Jeff Garzik, (Mon May 7, 9:21 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "se..., Roman Zippel, (Mon May 7, 9:46 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "se..., Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 12:50 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "se..., Roman Zippel, (Mon May 7, 1:07 pm)

[PATCH 1a/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "select", Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 5:08 pm)

[PATCH] Use menuconfig objects II - netdev/wan, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 5:02 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "se..., Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 4:54 pm)

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

Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "se..., Jeff Garzik, (Mon May 7, 4:31 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "se..., Roman Zippel, (Mon May 7, 4:57 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "se..., Satyam Sharma, (Mon May 7, 4:49 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "se..., Randy Dunlap, (Mon May 7, 4:50 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "se..., Satyam Sharma, (Mon May 7, 6:39 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/3] WAN Kconfig: change "depends on HDLC" to "se..., Randy Dunlap, (Mon May 7, 6:52 pm)

Navigation

Popular discussions


linux-kernel:
Greg KH	Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))
Greg KH	[patch 26/73] NET: Correct two mistaken skb_reset_mac_header() conversions.
Greg Kroah-Hartman	[PATCH 007/196] Chinese: add translation of stable_kernel_rules.txt
Alan Cox	Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
git:

linux-netdev:
Alexey Dobriyan	Re: [GIT]: Networking
Gerrit Renker	[PATCH 03/37] dccp: List management for new feature negotiation
Jarek Poplawski	[PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl_lock().
Andrew Morton	Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs
openbsd-misc:

Colocation donated by:

Online users

Syndicate