From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] USB Kconfig: Select SCSI for USB Mass Storage support
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:01:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47802879.3080005@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47802249.9010107@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Stefan Richter wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> Whether or not an option requires an additional subsystem like e.g. SCSI
>> or SSB are hardware and implementation details we shouldn't bother
>> kconfig users with.
>
> What is an implementation detail and what is not? In the end,
> everything that we configure in Kconfig is implementation details.
>
> PS:
> Kill 'select' already, and instead work on better UIs if you have got
> trouble with the complexities of the dependencies graph. The graphic
> UIs including menuconfig currently work best for tree-like dependencies,
> but the graph isn't a tree. Think about how to present this properly in
> an UI. The Kconfig files are the wrong place to attack this problem.
>
> PPS:
> Really, it's *not* hard *at all* to configure a 2.6.24-rc6 kernel with
> USB storage support. I don't read linux-usb --- has there been repeated
> questions how to enable usb-storage in the kernel configuration? I can
I do read linux-usb. I don't think that USB storage configuration
is a big issue (currently, without using "select").
But that's just my take on it.
> tell you that there has been no such question about sbp2 (FireWire
> storage support) in years. Don't fix what ain't broken. In fact, don't
> /break/ what ain't broken by adding more of the (as yet) broken 'select'
> everywhere.
--
~Randy
desserts: http://www.xenotime.net/linux/recipes/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-06 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-05 15:41 [PATCH 2/5] USB Kconfig: Select SCSI for USB Mass Storage support Al Boldi
2008-01-05 18:42 ` David Brownell
2008-01-05 19:30 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-01-05 21:03 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-05 21:09 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-05 23:22 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-01-05 23:45 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 0:35 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 0:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 11:29 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 11:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 12:32 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 12:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 13:23 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 12:18 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 12:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 13:13 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 13:38 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 13:55 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-06 13:57 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 14:45 ` david
2008-01-06 13:41 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 15:05 ` david
2008-01-06 14:08 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 17:11 ` Alan Stern
2008-01-06 18:07 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 1:01 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2008-01-06 11:54 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 12:05 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 12:41 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 5:03 ` Al Boldi
2008-01-06 14:39 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 17:07 ` Al Boldi
2008-01-06 17:50 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 18:01 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 18:23 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-05 20:40 ` Stefan Richter
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