Re: [2.6 patch] let W1 select NET
From: Adrian Bunk (bunk_at_fs.tum.de)
Date: 08/13/04
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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:01:37 +0200 To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:54:25PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 14:32, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > >
> > > > config W1
> > > > tristate "Dallas's 1-wire support"
> > > > + select NET
> > >
> > > What's wrong with a simple dependency?
> >
> > W1 requires NET, and thus depends on it.
> > If you _do_ want W1 then you _do_ need network and then NET must be
> > selected.
>
> A simple "depends on NET" does this as well, I see no reason to abuse
> select.
In the case of NET the discussion is mostly hypothetically since nearly
everyone has enabled NET.
But the similar case of USB_STORAGE selecting SCSI is an example where
select is a big user-visible improvement over depends.
> bye, Roman
cu
Adrian
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