From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757500AbYAFSJZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2008 13:09:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755314AbYAFSJM (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2008 13:09:12 -0500 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:60556 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755424AbYAFSJL (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2008 13:09:11 -0500 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <478118E1.1090804@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:07:29 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071216 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Stern CC: david@lang.hm, Adrian Bunk , Randy Dunlap , Sam Ravnborg , Al Boldi , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Brownell , Greg KH , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] USB Kconfig: Select SCSI for USB Mass Storage support References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Stern wrote: > Another disadvantage appears when somebody tries by hand to remove a > component (like SCSI) and finds that it magically reappears. Evidently > something is selecting it, but there's no way to find out what. xconfig's "Show Debug Info" and menuconfig's help screen show you whether an option was selected and by which option. xconfig calls it "reverse dep:", menuconfig says "Selected by:". Of course these features are merely there because 'select' creates this problem in the first place. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- ---= --==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/