From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965097AbWBGOmi (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:42:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965101AbWBGOmi (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:42:38 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:21772 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965097AbWBGOmh (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:42:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:42:36 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Ulrich Mueller Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch , Herbert Poetzl , Jan Engelhardt , Arjan van de Ven , Mark Lord , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , Linus Torvalds , Byron Stanoszek , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: RFC: add an ADVANCED_USER option Message-ID: <20060207144236.GH5937@stusta.de> References: <43E3DB99.9020604@rtr.ca> <1139153913.3131.42.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1139174355.3131.50.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060207004147.GA21620@MAIL.13thfloor.at> <1139305085.13091.17.camel@tara.firmix.at> <20060207121955.GD5937@stusta.de> <17384.43328.181493.272871@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17384.43328.181493.272871@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 03:05:52PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > What we could do is to add an additional ADVANCED_USER option that > > hides options like VMSPLIT or the NAPI options for net drivers. > > > config ADVANCED_USER > > bool "ask questions that require a deeper knowledge of the kernel" > > > config EXPERIMENTAL > > bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" > > depends on ADVANCED_USER > > Shouldn't this be the other way around, i.e. ADVANCED_USER depending > on EXPERIMENTAL? No, if there's a dependency between the two, then in this direction. > If you implement it as above, people will set ADVANCED_USER to "n" in > oldconfig and then be surprised that all experimental drivers are > gone. What about no dependency between ADVANCED_USER and EXPERIMENTAL? cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed