On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
And then with the quirk issue out of
the way, CONFIG_SCSI_SATA becomes purely a boolean enable/disable-this-menu
switch.
No it does not. You continue to ignore the fact that it's not an enable/disable thing. It's a "can we enable SATA drivers" vs "can we enable SATA drivers as modules" vs "do we do any SATA drivers at all?" thing.
A tristate.
Btw, if you want to have the _question_ always be y/n only, that's easy enough to do, just make that one do
config SATA_MENU
bool "Want to see SATA drivers"
depends on SCSI != n
config SCSI_SATA
tristate
depends on SCSI && SATA_MENU
default y
and now you have a totally sensible setup, where the low-level drivers can depend on something sane.
I don't think it _buys_ you anything, but hey, at least it's logical.
Btw, wouldn't it be much nicer to also have this all in a totally separate Kconfig file? That SCSI Kconfig file is one of the biggest ones (yeah, drivers/net/Kconfig is bigger, but hey, that's not a surprise, is it ;)